24 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



this species at Beverley, Yorks., and Black Poker Duck for 

 the SCAUP DUCK on the Hiunber. 



BLACK REDSTART [No. 179]. The name is found in Gould's 

 " Birds of Europe," vin (1834). This species has more 

 black and slate in its plumage than the commoner species, 

 hence its first name. For derivation of the word Redstart, 

 see under REDSTART. 



BLACK REDTAIL : The BLACK REDSTART. (Jenyns.) 

 BLACK SANDPIPER : The immature KNOT (provincial) ; also 



the immature PURPLE SANDPIPER (Pennant). 

 BLACK SCAUP : The SCAUP-DUCK. (Humber.) 

 BLACK SCOTER : The COMMON SCOTER is so called by Selby, 



Fleming, Jenyns and others. 



BLACK SHEARWATER : The SOOTY SHEARWATER. (Flam- 

 borough.) 



BLACKSMITH : The YELLOW BUNTING. (Salop.) 

 BLAKSTART : The BLACK REDSTART. An erroneous name, 

 as it signifies " Black tail " (see Redstart), while the tail 

 happens to be red. 



BLACK-STEER : The STARLING (Upton-on-Sevem, Worcester- 

 shire) ; also called Black Starling in East Lothian. 



BLACK STORK [No . 257] . The name first appears in Willughby 

 (1678), who calls it Black Stork to distinguish it from the 

 Common or White Stork, but it seems to be first recorded 

 for our Islands by Colonel Montagu in 1815 in a communica- 

 tion to the Linnean Society. 



BLACK SWIFT : Macgillivray's name for the SWIFT. 



BLACK-TAILED GODWIT [No. 403]. The name is found in 

 Fleming (1828). It is called Red Godwit by Edwards, 

 Pennant, Latham, etc. Now only a visitor on migration, 

 but it used to breed with us up to the year 1847. Dis- 

 tinguished from the Bar-tailed Godwit by its tail being 

 black instead of dusky grey with the base white only. It is 

 described by Willughby (1678), who calls it "the second 

 sort of Godwit." 



BLACK TERN [No. 412]. A species of Tern which is now only 

 a migrational visitor, although it used to breed in East 

 Anglia up to the year 1858. The plumage is really of a 

 sooty slate-grey, the head only being black. This species 

 is mentioned by Turner (1544) who calls it " Stern " and 

 bears witness to its abundance in England in his time, 

 stating that " throughout the whole of summer, at which 

 time it breeds, it makes such an unconscionable noise that 



