50 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



COAL and CANDLE-LIGHT: The LONG-TAILED DUCK. 



(Orkneys.) Also COL-CANDLE-WICK (Fife). 



COAL GOOSE : The CORMORANT. (Kent.) 



COAL HOOD, COAL HOOD EN, or COALLY HOOD : The BULL 

 FINCH. Scottish provincial names, the first two being 

 in use on the Scottish Border. 



COALMOUSE or COLEMOUSE : The COAL-TITMOUSE. The 

 former occurs in Merrett and the latter in Pennant and 

 later authors. 



COAL TIT : The COAL-TITMOUSE. A common abbreviation. 



COAL TITMOUSE [No. 91, Continental Coal-Titmouse ; No. 

 92, British Coal-Titmouse ; No. 93, Irish Coal-Titmouse]. 

 Occurs in Merrett's list (1667) as Coalmouse, and in many 

 later writers as Colemouse. Cole Titmouse is found in 

 Bewick (1797). The birds occurring in the British Islands 

 are now separated into three geographical races. 



COALY HOOD : The COAL-TITMOUSE. (Scotland.) Also the 

 REED-BUNTING. (Scotland.) 



COATHAM CROW : The HOODED CROW. (Loftus, Yorkshire.) 



COB : Properly the BLACK-HEADED GULL ; but also any 

 large Gull. (Newton.) Montagu applied it'to the GREAT 

 BLACK-BACKED GULL, while Bolam gives Cob Gull 

 as a Northumberland name for the same species. 



COB : The male of the MUTE SWAN ; the female being termed 

 Pen. Newton was in error in supposing no authority could 

 be found for Yarrell's statement that these were the former 

 names for the sexes of the Swans. In that curious old 

 work entitled, " The Order, Lawes and Ancient Customes 

 of the Swannes, caused to be printed by John Witherings, 

 Esquire, Master and Governour of the Royal Game of 

 Swans and Cygnets throughout England " (1632), are to- 

 be found these names for the sexes. 



COBB or SEA COBB : The COMMON GULL. (South-east 

 coasts.) 



COBBLE. A provincial name for the young of both the GREAT 

 NORTHERN and RED-THROATED DIVERS. Occurs 

 in Montagu. 



COBBLER'S AWL : The AVOCET (vide " Awl-Bird.") Montagu 

 gives it as a provincial name. 



COBLE : The HAWFINCH. (Norfolk Sir Thomas Browne.) 



COBLYN LLEIAF i The LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 

 (North Wales) lit. " lesser pecker." 



