280 GROUSE— GUILLEMOT 



Campbell, in his JVr\f Hig/i/and Tales, gives the following as 

 remarkable : — 



" The grouse cock and his wife are always disputing, and may 

 be heard on any fine evening or early morning quarrelling and 

 scolding about the stock of food. This is what the hen says : — 



"*Faic thusa 'n la' ud 's an la' ud eile,' and the cock with his 

 deeper voice replies : — 



" * Faic thusa 'n cnoc ud 's an cnoc ud eile.' 



See thou yonder day, and yon other day, 

 See thou yonder hill, and yon other hill." 



The ordinary food of the grouse, as is well known, is the 

 tender tops of the heather, but in times of stress they have been 

 known to resort to the shores and eat seawrack, etc. This bird is 

 now known as "the rich man's bird," and for numbers may be 

 called the " king " of the Highland moors, and has as its larger 

 relatives the blackcock and the capercailzie, which are not shot 

 till the 20th of August, while in Somerset and Devon, as well as in 

 the New Forest, they are immune until September 1. It is 

 frequently referred to in Highland sayings and songs, and has 

 been and still is the cause of much misery to the Highlanders, 

 who have had to make way for it and its neighbour, the red deer. 

 The cry, call, or challenge of the grouse in Gaelic is, " Co chaidh, 

 mo chlaidh," who went, my sword, like the challenge of a sentinel. 

 In English it is said to sound like " Go back," at least the black 

 cock. The grouse is very fond of the crowberry. Alasdair 

 Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair calls the hen grouse " A chearc ghearr- 

 ghobach riabhach," the short-beaked speckled hen, and the 

 cock-grouse, "An coileach craobhach nan gearr sgiath," the woody 

 cock of the short wing. 



GUILLEMOT.— Caileag, callag, calltag, carlag (black), 

 casgan-long, craigeach (Eigg), cronan (Ir.), crosan ; Eala-bheag- 

 an-sgadain, eun or eunan-aille, eun-a-chrubain, eun-an-sgadain, 

 eun-dubh-a-chrubain or a-chrullain, eun-dubh-an-sgadain ; Falc ; 

 Gearra, gearra-bhreac, gearra-ghlas (black) ; Lamhaidh, langach, 

 langaidh, langidh ; Muir-eun ; Taibhse. 



Auk, awpie ; Bar-goose (barnacle), black goose, bridled goose ; 

 Didlymot, diving pigeon, dovoky ; Eligny ; Foolish goose ; goose 

 or goosen-chick (gosling or young), gospel, gospell, Greenland 

 dove or turtle, guillem, guillemote, gusan-chick (young) ; Herald 

 (diving) ; Jenny Grey ; Kiddaw, kittag ; Lamy, langvia, large- 

 billed goose, lavy, little goose, lomvie, longie, longivie, lum, 

 lungie, lungy ; Maggie, marrot, morrot, murran (Ir.), murre, 

 murryan, murse ; Oakie ; Parrot, puffinet, puffixet ; Queet, quet ; 

 Razorbill, redshank, ringed or ring-eyed goose, rock dove ; Scout, 

 scraber, scuttock, sea coot, hen, dovie, pigeon, or turtle (foolish), 

 skiddaw, skout, skuhe, skutie, skuttock, spotted goose, spratter. 



