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BRITISH MARSH-TITMOUSE. See MARSH-TITMOUSE. 



BRITISH NUTHATCH. See NUTHATCH. 



BRITISH REDBREAST. See REDBREAST. 



BRITISH SONG-THRUSH. See SONG-THRUSH. 



BRITISH WILLOW-TITMOUSE. See WILLOW-TITMOUSE. 



BROADBILL or BROAD-BILLED DUCK : The SHOVELER. (Pro- 

 vincially.) So called from its spatulate bill. 



BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER [No. 385]. The name is 

 found in Gould's " Birds of Europe " (pt. xvii.). 



BROAD-BILLED SCAUP-DUCK : The SCAUP-DUCK. (Macgilli- 

 vray.) 



BROINN DEARG. A Gaelic name for the REDBREAST. 



BRONGIE : The CORMORANT. (Orkney and Shetland.) 



BRONRUDDYN or BRONGOCH : The REDBREAST (North 

 Wales) ; lit. " ruddy breast," and " red breast." 



BRONRUDDYN Y MYNYDD : The BR AMBLING. (North Wales.) 



BRONWEN: The WHITETHROAT. (North Wales) lit. 

 " white breast." 



BRONWEN LEIAF : The LESSER WHITETHROAT. (North 

 Wales) lit. "lesser white breast." 



BROOK OUZEL : The WATER-RAIL. (Willughby.) Hett also 

 applies the name to the DIPPER. 



BROOK-RUNNER : The WATER-RAIL. (Provincial.) 



BROWN- AND -WHITE GULL : The immature GREAT BLACK- 

 BACKED GULL. 



BROWN-BACKED WARBLER [No. 153]. A rare straggler 

 from south-east Europe, first recorded in 1907. 



BROWN BEE-HAWK. Macgillivray's name for the HONEY- 

 BUZZARD. 



BROWN BUZZARD : The COMMON BUZZARD. (Macgillivray.) 



Brown Crane. A North American species of which a solitary 

 example, probably an escaped bird, has occurred in 

 Ireland. 



BROWN EAGLE. A name for the GOLDEN EAGLE. (Mac- 

 gillivray.) 



BROWN FLYCATCHER [No. 115]. An Eastern Siberian 

 species, first recorded in 1909. 



BROWN GLED : The female HEN-HARRIER. (Scotland.) 

 From its brown plumage, an English equivalent being 

 Brown Kite ; the male is called Blue Gled. 



BROWN GULL : The GREAT SKUA ; also the immature BLACK- 

 HEADED GULL. 



