LAPWING— LARK 299 



leog (Ir.), feadag-riasgach, filbin ; Oirc ; Pibhinn, pilbin (Ir.) ; 

 Sadharcan, saoragan^ saorgan, saotharcan. 



Cappie, collared turnstone, common tm-nstone, corniwillen ; 

 Dix-huit; Flap-jack (Suffolk), flopwing ; Green or grey plover; 

 Happinch, hleape-wince (A. S.), hoopoe, hornewink, horniwink, 

 hornpie, hornywick-wig-wink-winky, horrywink ; Lap-winckle, 

 lipwingle (Beds.), lymptwigg (Exmoor) ; Nicket ; Old maid 

 (Wore.) ; Peaseweep, peesie, peesweep, peeweep, peeweet, pee- 

 wyt, pewit, phillipene (Ir.), piewipe, pilbin, puet, puit ; Teeou, 

 teeuck (Orkney), teewheep, teuchet, teuchit, tewfet (North), 

 theuis or thevis-nek, tieves, touchet, tuchit, tuquheit, turnstone ; 

 Wallack, wallop, wallop-a-weep or weet, wallochie-weet, wype. 



The above Anglo-Saxon word "hleape or hleape-wince supposed 

 to be the origin of the name of this well-known bird, it means 

 "one who turns about in running," from "hleap-an," to run, and 

 " wince " to turn. 



This bird is well known in the Highlands, especially where 

 bare short-grassed moors prevail ; it is thought much of in some 

 parts of the north, though disliked, it is believed, in the south — 

 except for food. The Irish also are said to hate it, as the saying 

 runs, it gave its eggs to Scotland, and its dirt to Ireland. The 

 lapwing lays four eggs. 



In the Highlands the lapwing is thought to say "'Mhurchaidh 

 bheag na creach mo nead." Little Murdoch, do not harry my 

 nest. A storm called "Tuchet's storm" heralds the arrival of 

 the lapwing, about the middle of March. If lapwings nest and 

 lay on the slope of a hill, it is always on the east side thereof if 

 at all feasible. 



LARK. — Bigean-mor (lit. little-big bird), boag, bodhag, bothag, 

 bualainde (sea, sandy laverock) ; Ciabhag-choille (wood) ; Fosg, 

 fosgag, fuiseag, fuiseog (Ir.) ; Gleorag, gulnag (sea) ; Iseag ; 

 Luatharan ; Reamhag, reubhag, riabhag, riabhag-coille, riabhag- 

 monaidh, riubhag ; Uiseag, etc. 



Backie, baukie ; Common lark ; Dilser, dulser (rock or field) ; 

 Field-lark ; Horned lark ; Lady hen, laeverik, lairag, lairock, 

 lalock, larick, larock, larrock, laverack, laverc (A. S.), laveree, 

 laverick, laverock, laverok, laveruck, lavrick, lavroc, lavrock, 

 lavrok, lawerce, lawrook, layrock, layruck, layruk, learock, lereke, 

 lerock, lerruck, leverock, levrick, lint- white (Suff.), loch-learock ; 

 Our Lady's hen ; Queen-of-Heaven's-hen ; Ring dotterel or plover, 

 rising-bird or lark ; Sandy larick, lerick or leverick, sandy-loo, 

 shore-lark, short-heeled lark, sky-lark, stinte (sea-holme) ; Whey- 

 bird (wood), whistler, wodewall wood, woodweele (wood), etc. 



In Irisleabhar na Gaidhlige, the well-known Celtic scholar who 

 writes under the name " Iain " says — " Cha 'n 'eil eun anns an 

 ealtuinn air an robh uiread de mheas aig luchd-aiteachaidh nan 

 Eileanan-an-iar 's a bha air an uiseag. Ri mo cheud chuimhne 



