342 THRUSH— TITMOUSE 



The translation is given as found. It has the merit of being 

 pretty Hteral. 



Proverbs and sayings as to the thrush are, as may be expected, 

 in existence. A thrush entering a house voluntarily is a decided 

 emblem of good luck. The term missel or mistletoe thrush has 

 been variously accounted for, one being that the bird is particularly 

 fond of the berries of the mistletoe, though birds, as a rule, shun 

 that parasite from the sticky juice which exudes from it. Another 

 meaning is derived from its well-known solitary habits, the word 

 "misslie" meaning solitary; a third is from " mizle, mizzle or 

 misle," to speckle, etc., hence " misle-shinned," having speckled 

 legs (as boys have that sit much at the fireside), ergo, mizzle or 

 misle-thrush, speckled thrush. This bird is said to be particularly 

 plentiful in Morayshire. 



TITMOUSE or TIT. — Cai, cailleach, cailleachag-cheann-dubh 

 or duibh, cailleach-cheann-gorm (blue), ceann-dubh or dubhag 

 (marsh), ciochan, ciochan-fada (long-tailed), currag-bhaintighearn 

 (great) ; Gabhagan, gaistean-cloich, gobhagan, gobhlacan, gobh- 

 lagan, gocan ; Miondan, miontan ; Reabhag, reabhag-monaidh or 

 fraoich, reafog, reallog ; Smulag, smutag, snoileun (grey or blue). 



Ackmal, ackymal, allecampagne ; Bag, bearded pinnock or tit, 

 bee-bird, bell-ringer, bettytit (Suffolk), big oxeye (great), Billy, 

 Billy-biter, black-cap hed or redstart, black-capped lolly, black- 

 headed Bob or tomtit, black oxeye, blue-bonnet cap mope spick 

 tomtit or yaup, bottle-tit or Tom, bum-barrel or towel, bumo- 

 towel, bush-oven ; Cambottle, caton, coal, coalhooden, coal-tit or 

 coalyhood, cole, colebood, hooding mouse, tit or titmouse, cuckoo- 

 bird ; Effie (marsh), ekkymal or mowl, elicompagnie (Cornw.) ; 

 Feather-poke, French magpie, fuffit ; Great tit ; Hackmal or 

 mull, hackymal, hackkimal, haemal, heather-lintie, heckamall, 

 heckanoddy, heckenal, heckmall, heckymal, hedge-jug, hekkymal, 

 hickmall, hickymal, hockymal, huckmuck ; Jack-in-a-bottle, Jack- 

 noup, Jack-saw (great), Jenny-tit or wren, Joe Ben, jonnker, 

 jorinker, jug-pot ; Lady's night-cap, lesser butcher bird, little 

 old wife, little pednpaly (Cornw.), long-pod, long-tailed capon 

 mag muffin pie or tit ; Marsh tit, meadow pipit, miller's thumb, 

 millothrum, milly-thoomb or thumb, moss cheeper, mumruffin 

 (hedge — Wore.) ; Nimble tailor, nope or noup (Salop), nun or 

 nunnie ; Oven-bird (long-tailed), oven's-nest, oxee, oxen-bird, 

 oxeye (great tit) ; Pednpaly, pheasant, pack-cheese, pinchem, 

 pinnock, poke-bag or pudding, pole-pudding, pridden-pral, prin- 

 priddle, pudding-bag ; Ragamuffin, red or reed bunting or pheasant, 

 rockpipit ; Saw-sharpener or whetter, sharp saw, sit-ye-down, 

 snorter, stonechat ; Taffit, teetick, tidife, tinnock, titlark, titling, 

 titmal, titmose (A. S.), tittymouse (Baret), Tom nope, nouf, noup 

 or tit, tree babbler, tytmase ; Uckmaul ; Wagstert ; Yaup, yaupit. 



This bird of the many names is peculiar for a cat-like habit of 



