46 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



CHIFFCHAFF [No. 119, Chiffchaff ; No. 120, Scandinavian 

 Chiffchaff ; No. 121, Siberian Chiffchaff]. This species was 

 the Lesser Pettychaps or Least Willow Wren of eigh- 

 teenth-century authors. The name Chiffchaff is an imita- 

 tion of its song and is first found as " smallest willow wren 

 or chiffchaf " in Gilbert White's " Naturalists' Calendar 

 and Observations " (p. 77), published in 1795 by Aiken. 

 The Scandinavian Chiffchaff is a closely-allied form, of 

 which some few examples have been recorded. The other 

 sub-species, the Siberian Chiffchaff, is now known as a 

 regular autumn visitor to Fair Isle. 



CHIKEREL. A local name for the WHIMBREL in the Poole 



district. (Hawker.) 

 CHIMNEY SWALLOW : The SWALLOW. The species occurs under 



this name in Pennant and other authors to Montagu, and 



also Macgillivray. 



Chinese Goose. A species not entitled to a place on the British 

 List. 



CHINK : The REED-BUNTING. (Provincial.) 



CHINK CHAFFEY, CHINK CHAWDY, CHINK CHINK, or CHINK y : 

 The CHAFFINCH. (Provincial.) From its sharp " spink " 

 note. 



CHIP-CHOP: The CHIFFCHAFF. From its song. Macgilli- 

 vray gives it as a provincial name. 



CHIPPET LINNET : The LESSER REDPOLL. (Doncaster.) 

 CHIT-LARK: The MEADOW-PIPIT. (Skelmanthorpe, York- 



shire.) 



CHIT-PERL : The LITTLE TERN. 

 CHITTER CHAT : The SEDGE-WARBLER. (Northumberland.) 



CHITTIE, CHITTY, or CHIT : The MEADOW-PIPIT and also the 

 TREE-PIPIT. (Lancashire and North of England.) Der. 

 from A. Sax. cidh, a sprout, child or offspring, and meaning 

 a small bird, or lit. a small thing. The MEADOW- 

 PIPIT and the SEDGE-WARBLER are also known as 

 " Chitty prat," and at Sedbergh, Yorkshire, the WREN 

 is called Chitty. 



CHITTY, CHADDY, JITTY : The LESSER REDPOLL (Cheshire). 

 Probably in allusion to its small size. 



CHITTY WREN. Thompson says the WREN is so called in 

 Ireland on account of its call chit when alarmed by a cat. 



CHOGH. Given by Aldrovandus as an English name for the 

 CHOUGHS; Turner spells it " Choghe." 



