22 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



ordinance for the regulation of the Royal Household, dated 

 " apud Eltham, mens. Jan. 22, Hen. VIII " (i.e. 1531), and 

 referring, Newton thinks, to the Black Grouse. He thinks 

 the most likery derivation is from Old Fr. griesche, greoche, 

 or griais, meaning speckled. Cotgrave (1611) has " Poule 

 griesche : a moore-hen, the henne of the Grice" 



BLACK GUILLEMOT [No. 447]. The name Black Guillemot 

 is first found in Pennant (1766). Occurs in Willughby and 

 in Albin as the " Greenland Dove or Sea-Turtle." The 

 name is in reference to its chiefly black plumage ; Guillemot 

 being from Fr. guillemot. 



BLACK GULL. The Skuas are sometimes so called from their 



dark colour, especially the GREAT SKUA. 

 BLACK HAWK. The MERLIN is sometimes so-called. 

 BLACK-HEADED BARNACLE. A name for the BRENT GOOSE ; 



given in Macgillivray. 



BLACK-HEADED BOB : The GREAT TITMOUSE. (Devon.) 

 BLACK-HEADED BULLY : The BULLFINCH. (Yorkshire.) 

 BLACK-HEADED BUNTING [No. 45]. A southern species of 

 casual occurrence. The name is also applied to the REED- 

 BUNTING (a totally distinct indigenous species) which 

 occurs under the name in the first edition of Yarrell and 

 is frequently so called provincially on account of its black 

 head. 



BLACK-HEADED BUSHCHAT : The STONECHAT. (Macgil- 

 livray.) 



BLACK-HEADED DIVER: The male SCAUP-DUCK, so caUed 



from its glossy-black head. 

 BLACK-HEADED FURZECHAT : The STONECHAT. (Provincial.) 



BLACK-HEADED GULL [No. 427]. So called from its " black" 

 (really dark brown) cap. Gull (in Old Eng. mew) is 

 from Welsh gwylan, Fr. goeland. Occurs in Turner, who 

 calls it " a white semaw, with a black cop," giving it no 

 English name other than the provincial one of " Sea-Cob." 

 He also, without apparent justification, identifies it with 

 the Fulica of classical writers, a name now given to the 

 COOT. Willughby and Ray call it the " Pewit or Black- 

 cap, called in some places the Sea-Crow and Mire-Crow." 

 Black-headed Gull appears to be first found in Pennant. 



BLACK-HEADED HAY-JACK: The BLACKCAP. (Norfolk.) See 



Hay- Jack. 

 BLACK-HEADED PEGGY : The BLACKCAP. (Provincial.) 



