BLACK BLACK. 23 



BLACK-HEADED SNIPE : The SPOTTED REDSHANK. (Pro- 

 vincial.) 



BLACK-HEADED THISTLEFINCH. Macgillivray's name for the 

 SISKIN. 



BLACK-HEADED TOMTIT or TITMOUSE : The GREAT TIT- 

 MOUSE ; also the MARSH-TITMOUSE (Macgillivray). 



BLACK-HEADED WAGTAIL [No. 78]. A south-east Euro- 

 pean form of Yellow Wagtail. 



BLACK-HEADED WIGEON : The SCAUP-DUCK. (Provincial.) 



BLACK IBIS : The GLOSSY IBIS. Occurs in Willughby. 



BLACKIE : The BLACKBIRD. (Northumberland, Yorkshire.) 



BLACK KITE [No. 251]. The name is found in Sibbald, and 

 in most modern authors. 



BLACK LARK [No. 58]. A West Siberian species first 

 recorded in 1907 for our islands. 



BLACK MARSH-TERN. Macgillivray's name for the BLACK 

 TERN. 



BLACK MARTIN, MARTLET, SWALLOW, or SWIFT : The SWIFT. 

 Occurs in Merrett (1667) as " Black Martin or Martlet," 

 and in Willughby (1678) as " Black Martin or Swift." As 

 a provincial name it is still in use locally. According to 

 Bolam the MARTIN is also so called " at Wooler, and 

 perhaps in other places, though [the name is] apparently 

 dying out." 



BLACK NEB or BLACK-NEBBED Crow : The CARRION-CROW. 

 (North Country.) The latter form occurs in Bewick (1797) ; 

 so called from its black bill. Nelson and Clarke give " Black 

 Neb " for the HOODED CROW and " Black-nebbed Crow " 

 for the CARRION-CROW in Yorkshire. 



BLACK-NECKED GREBE [No. 339]. This is the Eared Grebe 



of Pennant and succeeding writers. 

 BLACK NODDY : The Noddy Tern. (Jenyns.) 

 BLACK OUZEL: The BLACKBIRD. (Craven and Cleveland, 



Yorkshire.) Occurs in Turner as " Blak Osel." 

 BLACK OX-EYE : The COAL-TITMOUSE. (Forfar.) 

 BLACK PHEASANT. An ironical Cleveland name for the 



CARRION-CROW. (Nelson and Clarke.) 

 BLACK PLOVER : The LAPWING. (Provincial.) 

 BLACK POKER or BLACK-HEADED POKER : The TUFTED 



DUCK. The former is a Norfolk name, " poker " being 



a common term for species of wild duck in East Anglia. 



Nelson and Clarke give "Black Pocker" (Poker ?) for 



