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neighbourhood of Phasis in Colchis. In addition to the word 

 "eye" for a brood, we find "Nide, nje, and Nythe." 



PHGENIX. — Ainneamhag ; Teare-eun. 



This fabulous bird — or corra-chagailte — is so named from 

 Phoenicia. 



PIGEON (see Dove). 



PIPIT. — Bigean, bigean-beag, bigein, bigeun (rock); Craobh- 

 bhigein ; Glaisean ; Snathag. 



Bank-sparrow; Cheepart, cheeper, cheepuc, cuckoo's Sandie 

 or titling ; Dusky lark ; Earth titling ; Field titling ; Gutter- 

 teetan (Orkney); Heather lintie, hill-sparrow; Ling-bird, lingy 

 (meadow), lintie-cock (rock); Meadow lark or titling, moor tit, 

 titling or tablet, moss cheeper or cheepuck ; Peep-teetan ; Rock- 

 lark ; Sea-lark, shore-pipit or teetan, short-tailed field lark ; 

 Tang-sparrow (rock), teetick (meadow), tietick, tit, titling, 

 titlark, tree-pipit; Wekeen. 



PLOVER (see also Stilt). — Boag, bodhag, bothag (ringed) ; 

 Creagag (grey), crotag, cutag ; Eanag ; Faideag (green), faithir- 

 leag, feadag, feadog (golden — Ir.), feideag, fuisleach ; Peatag ; 

 Reirceire ; Trigleachan, trilleachan, triollachan ; Uiseag-riasgach. 



Austrian pratincole ; Bennet (bastard), black-bellied, black- 

 breasted, bullhead ; Cawilly, chuse-it, collared pratincole, common, 

 cream-coloured courser ; Dotterel, dulwilly (ringed) ; golden, great, 

 green, grey, groundling, grundling ; Hill ; Kentish ; Lapwing, 

 little ring dotterel, little ringed plover ; May or meycock, mud ; 

 Norfolk ; Peewit, plevar, plowere (A. S.) ; Rain-piper, ring or 

 ringed dotterel or plover, rock plover ; Sand lark or piper, sandy 

 laverock or loo (ringed), sanlon (Ork.), sea bellek cock or plover, 

 scanderling, stone-hatch (Norf.), stone-curlew, plover or thick-knee, 

 strand plover, Swiss sandpiper ; Tewit, thick-knee, thick-knee'd 

 bustard, trill ; Wandering Jew, whistler or whistling plover ; 

 Yellow plover. 



Supposed to be from the Latin " pluvia," rain ; original root 

 " plu," to swim — a wading bird. 



The well-known cry of this bird is as familiar in the Highlands 

 as elsewhere, the whistler or feadag having furnished a cry for 

 many a raider and smuggler. If heard at night, it was said to 

 portend the near approach of death, or some other evil ; this, 

 doubtless, used to frighten feeble folk from frequenting fastnesses 

 thirled to secret stills, etc. In Aberdeen the cry or whistle is 

 construed as " Pleugh weel, shaave {i.e., sow) weel, harrow weel." 

 Its flight is proverbially swift, a familiar saying being : " Cho luath 



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