14 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



BARTRAM'S SANDPIPER [No. 369]. A rare American 

 visitor, the name being found in Wilson. Also known as 

 Bartram's Tatler. 



BASS COCK : The PUFFIN. (Scotland.) From its frequenting 



the Bass Rock. 

 BASS GOOSE: The GANNET. (Scotland.) From its being 



found on the Bass Rock. Swainson also gives Basser as a 



Forfarshire name. 

 BASTARD PLOVER : The LAPWING. Occurs in Merrett and 



Willughby, and Nelson and Clarke cite it as an ancient 



Hull name for the bird (1560). 

 BATTY BIRD : The LITTLE EGRET. 

 BAWKIE, BAUKIE, or BAWKEE : The RAZORBILL. (Orkneys.) 



An equivalent of Auk. 



BAY DUCK : The SHELD-DUCK. (Norfolk.) From the chest- 

 nut band on the breast. 

 BAY IBIS : The GLOSSY IBIS. 

 BEAM-BIRD : The SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. (South and east 



England). Perhaps an equivalent of '* Rafter-bird " (q.v.). 

 BEAN-CRAKE : The LAND-RAIL. Montagu gives it as a 



provincial name ; Swainson says Bean-Crake or Bean 



Cracker is a South Pembroke name for the species. 



BEAN-GOOSE [No. 277]. The name is first found in Pennant. 

 It is also called " Corn Goose," a name arising from the 

 bird's partiality to grain and pulse (Swainson). It is the 

 " Wild Goose " of some parts of Scotland and Ireland, and 

 is so called in Fleming and some other authors. According 

 to Yarrell the noise in the air attributed to the Gabriel or 

 Wish Hounds, is really caused by this species (see " Gabble 

 Ratchet "). 



BEARDED BUSTARD: The GREAT BUSTARD. From the 

 moustache-like tuft on each side of the head. 



BEARDED PINNOCK or BEARDED REEDLING : The BEARDED 

 TITMOUSE. (Provincial.) 



BEARDED TITMOUSE [No. 105]. The name Bearded Tit- 

 mouse first appears in Albin. Edwards calls it the Least 

 Butcher- Bird and Pennant in his folio " Brit. Zoology " 

 (1766) follows Edwards and places it with the Shrikes under 

 the name of the " Lest Butcher Bird," but in his later 

 editions he calls it Bearded Titmouse. The name is derived 

 from the tuft of black feathers resembling a moustache 

 running backward from the gape. It is frequently abbre- 

 viated to Bearded Tit. 



