30 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



BONCATH : The COMMON BUZZARD. (North Wales.) Coward 

 and Oldham think it is probably from Boda cath=cat 

 hawk, from its mewing cry. 



BONNETIE : The LITTLE GREBE. (Forfar.) 



BONXIE. A Shetland name for the GREAT SKUA ; said to be 



used also in the Orkneys. 



BOOMER : The BITTERN. From its booming cry. 

 BOONK : The LITTLE BITTERN. (Montagu.) 

 BOOTY: The MANX SHEARWATER. Mr. R. Godfrey 



informs me it goes under this name on the East Coast of 



Shetland. 



BOTHAG. A Gaelic name for the RINGED PLOVER. 



BOTTLE-BUMP : The BITTERN. (Yorkshire.) 



BOTTLE- JUG : The LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. (North and 



East Yorkshire.) From the shape of its nest. 

 BOTTLE-NOSE : The PUFFIN. From its peculiarly-shaped bill. 



Willughby records it as so called in South Wales. 

 BOTTLE TIT or BOTTLE TOM : The LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. 



(Provincial.) From the shape of its nest. 

 BOUGER or BOWGER : The PUFFIN. Bowger occurs in Martin's 



"Voy. to St. Kilda"; while Bouger, or Bulker, is the 



Hebrides name. 



BRACKEN OWL : The NIGHTJAR. (Longdendale, Cheshire.) 

 BRACKET : The TURNSTONE. (South Northumberland.) 

 BRAKE-HOPPER or BRAKE LOCUSTELLE : The GRASSHOPPER - 



WARBLER. From its habit of frequenting thick under- 

 wood. 



BRAKE NIGHTINGALE : The NIGHTINGALE. (Macgillivray.) 

 BRAMBLE COCK : The BR AMBLING. (Cheshire.) 



BRAMBLE-FINCH : The BRAMBLING. (Yorkshire and else- 

 where.) 



BRAMBLING [No. 38]. The name appears in Turner (1544) 

 as " Bramlyng " and in Merrett's list and also Willughby as 

 " Bramble or Brambling." Pennant calls it the Brambling 

 or Mountain Finch. Also applied to the young of the 

 SNOW-BUNTING. 



BRAME : The WHIMBREL. (East Suffolk.) 



BRAN : The CARRION-CROW. (Cornish.) Mr. Harting also 

 applies it to the Rook. 



BRAN or BRAN FAWR : The CARRION-CROW. (North Wales) 

 lit. " crow " or " great crow." 



