344 WAGTAIL— WAXWING 



grey and white, grey-Iieaded ; Moll-washer, niolly-washdish, moll- 

 washer, niollswaslier ; Nannie wagtail or washtail ; Oat-seed bird ; 

 Peg«jy-dishwasher, Polly-washdish ; Quaketail ; Scullery maid, 

 seed fowlie lady or laverock, spotted lady, spring, stainyell, 

 summer; Waggie, washerwoman, water, waterie, water-swallow, 

 wattie (pied), Willie-wagtail, winter ; Yellow molly, waggie, or 

 wagtail. 



Formerly called " wagstart or wagstert," start, signifying tail. 



This pretty bird is hated in Ireland, and thought always to 

 presage some evil, according to Lady Wilde, because it plucked 

 away the moss with which the robin had covered and hidden our 

 Saviour from His enemies. In Highlands of Scotland his coming 

 near the doors of houses and among hens, etc., is a sure sign of 

 bad weather. If seen between a person and his or her house, it is, 

 or was, a sign of eviction to follow, previous to the Crofters Act 

 designated " Call na laraich." 



WARBLER. — Ceiliriche (blue-throated), ceolan, ceolan-cuilc, 

 cuilceag, cuilcean (reed) ; Loiliseag ; Oranaiche ; Uiseag-oidhche 

 (sedge). 



Bank-jug, beardy, bee-bird, Billy whitethroat, black-cap, 

 black-capped warbler, blethering-Tam, blue-throated warbler, 

 brake-hopper ; Chan-chider, chancider, channy (sedge), charly- 

 mufty, chat, chatter-hi-ti, churr, cricket-bird ; Dartford warbler ; 

 Fauvette, feather-bag bed or poke ; Garden fauvet, whitethroat or 

 warbler, golden wren, grasshopper, chipper lark or manruffin, greater 

 petty chaps, green oven, ground-Isaac oven or wren ; Hay-bird or 

 tit, huck-muck ; huzzer (grasshopper); Irish nightingale; Jan or 

 Johnny-chider (sedge) ; Leg-bird, linty-white ; Marsh reedling, 

 mealy mouth, miller's thumb, milly thoomb or thumb, mocking 

 bird, mock nightingale, muffie wren, mufty ; Nettle creeper, night 

 singer; Oven bird or tit; Peggy or Peggy-whitethroat, Provence 

 furzeling ; Reedling, reed warbler or wren ; Sally picker, Scottish 

 nightingale, sedge bird marine warbler or wren, sibilous brake- 

 hopper, small straw, smeu, smooth, smouth, strawsmear or meer, 

 streasmear, sweet Billy ; Tom thumb ; Water sparrow, whattie, 

 wheetie, whey-bird, whiskey, white wren, why, Willie muftie, 

 willow sparrow warbler or wren, wood warbler or wren ; Yellow 

 wren. 



WATER-HEN (see Coot). 



WAXWING. — Canranach-dearg. 



Black-throated, Bohemian chatterer. 



This is a rare bird in Scotland, and is said to be a native of 

 Lapland now, though once plentiful ; very fond of rowan berries 

 and haws. In the policies of Duff House, Banffshire, a specimen 

 of the hen waxwing was lately shot. This bird resembles the 



