32 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



BRIAR BUNTING : The CORN-BUNTING. (North Ireland.) 



BRID or BRYD. The original form of Bird in Mid.-Eng. and 

 A.Sax., being derived from A.Sax. bredan, to breed. The 

 term was properly applicable to the young only, and seems 

 synonymous with brood, A.Sax. brod, the proper term for 

 the adult bird being fowl, A.Sax. fugol, which has in 

 recent times come to be applied more especially to the 

 barn-door varieties of gallinaceous birds. Shakespeare 

 (Henry IV, act v, sc. 1.) has "that ungentle gull' the 

 cuckoo's bird (i.e. young)." Chaucer has " take any brid 

 and put it in a cage," etc., also the plural form briddes. 

 In the corrupted Northern English it appears to have become 

 early changed to bird by the shifting of the " r," although 

 it survived for a time as brid or bryd in the Wessex, or 

 Southern English, tongue, which was less subject to cor- 

 rupting influences. According to Poole brid still survives 

 in Staffordshire 



BRIDLED GUILLEMOT. A supposed variety of the COMMON 

 GUILLEMOT ; also known as the Ringed Guillemot. 



BRIDLED MARROT. A local name for the Ringed Guillemot 

 among the fishermen in the West of Scotland (Gray). 



BRIDLE DUCK : The SCAUP-DUCK. (Dublin.) 



BRIECAN BEATHA. A Gaelic name for the CHAFFINCH. 



BRINKER : The RING-OUZEL. 



BRISK FINCH, BRISKIE, or BRICHTIE : The CHAFFINCH. 

 (Scotland.) From its smartness of appearance and activity. 



BRITH Y FUCHES. A South Wales name for the PIED WAG- 

 TAIL ; lit. " pied bird of the cowshed." 



BRITH Y FUCHES FELEN. A Welsh name for the YELLOW 

 W T AGTAIL ; felen signifies " yellow." 



BRITH Y FUCHES LWYD. A W T elsh name for the GREY WAG- 

 TAIL ; Iwyd signifies " grey." 



BRITISH COAL-TITMOUSE. See COAL-TITMOUSE. 



BRITISH DIPPER. See DIPPER. 



BRITISH GOLDEN-CRESTED W T REN. See GOLDEN-CRESTED 

 WREN. 



BRITISH GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. See GREAT SPOTTED 

 WOODPECKER. 



BRITISH GREAT TITMOUSE. See GREAT TITMOUSE. 



BRITISH HEDGE SPARROW. See HEDGE-SPARROW. 



BRITISH LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. See LONG-TAILED TIT- 

 MOUSE. 



