274 FINCH— FOWL 



Nicol (gold) ; King Harry, King Harry red-cap ; Lady-with-the- 

 twelve-flounces, linnet, long tailor, long Tom ; Mountain finch 

 (branibling) ; Nob, nope; Olpb, ope (i)ull) ; Fie-finch (chaf. — 

 North), pope, proud tailor (gold) ; Red-cap, red whoop (bull — Som.), 

 reike (chaf.), ribinet (chaf.) ; Uoberd, rodok ; Scoby (Yorksh.), 

 seven-coloured linnet, sheely (North), sheldappel, sheldapple, 

 sherifTs man, siskin, speckled Dick, spink, sweet William ; Tawny 

 (bull — Som.), thickbill (Lane), thistle-finch, tonnihood (North), 

 twink (chaf.) ; Ulf (bull), uthage (Som.). 



" Spink " or spunk, said to be from Aryan form spinge ; Teut. 

 spinka and tinka, all from "spang," to make a noise. 



A finch entering a dwelling-house voluntarily, is thought to be 

 an emblem of good luck. The siskin is particularly fond of feeding 

 on the catkins of the birch. The finch's egg is remarkably gaudy. 



FLYCATCHER. — Beicein-glas, breacan-glas orbreacan-sgiobalt 

 (spotted) ; Cab-nan-cuileag ; Glac-nan-cuileag. 



Beam-bird, bee-bird ; Chait, chancider, cherry-sucker, cherry- 

 chopper, cherry snipe, cobweb, cole finch ; Gip-gip, grey finch ; 

 Hewsick ; Lyle pyet ; Miller (young) ; Post-bird ; Rafter-bird, 

 red finch ; Sea-robin, spotted finch ; Wall bird, wall-plat, white 

 baker, whitewall. 



This bird arrives late in the North, but it is noted for the speed 

 with which it builds its nest. 



FOWL. — Ean, en, eun, eunlaith, eun-otraich (barn-door), eun- 

 uisge (water) ; Ian. 



Boon (Yorksh.) ; Cuckoo (dorking) ; Faa, faal, fahl, fal, faoo, 

 farl, faster (sea), fawl, feau, feaw, feawl, figh, foo, fool, fou, foul, 

 foule, fow, fower, ful, full, fuxol (tail-less); Gordon (wild), grig, 

 grug (bantam) ; Kain-fowl ; Martin, morton, mortyn ; Reik-fowl 

 (kain), rumkin ; Schidderems, schiwerine, scry (flock), silver or 

 golden-creil or creile ; Voul, vowel. 



From Teut. base " fugla." 



A well-known cure in the Highlands against the bite of a 

 poisonous serpent was (formerly) the warm flesh of a black cock or 

 fowl cut up alive and applied to the part, the poison is thus drawn 

 from the person or animal affected, and the flesh of the fowl turns 

 black and putrifies quickly. The killing of the fowl first isj 

 more humane and equally efficacious. The dead body of a fowl, \ 

 killed and mangled by a hawk, is called a "pelt," nothing being 

 generally left but the skin. The word " kain " is a well-known 

 legal term, meaning the best fowl taken or exacted as rent by 

 the landlord or factor on his behalf (from Gaelic " cain," a tax). 

 This is a mode of rent-paying common in or to St Kilda. The 

 meat or flesh of a fowl in Gaelic is called "serc-fheoil," while the 

 pole used in knocking down the birds is called " stearr," stear, a 

 rude blow. The life of a domestic fowl is estimated as from twelve 

 to fifteen years. 



