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COLLARED TURNSTONE : The TURNSTONE. 



COLLIER, or COLLIERJACK The CURLEW. (Cheshire.) Collier 

 is also applied to the HOUSE-SPARROW and the SWIFT 

 in Yorkshire. 



COLLOCHAN GULL : The BLACK-HEADED GULL. (Kirkcud- 

 bright.) From a loch so called. 



COLOMEN. The Welsh name for the wild pigeons. In North 

 Wales the RING-DOVE is called Colomen wyllt (wild 

 pigeon) or Colomen goed (wood pigeon); the STOCK-DOVE 

 Colomen ddof (tame pigeon) ; the ROCK-DOVE Colomen 

 y graig (rock pigeon) ; and the TURTLE-DOVE Colomen 

 fair (St. Mary's dove.) 



COLLY : The BLACKBIRD. (Provincial.) Der. from A.Sax. 

 coZ=coal, and meaning literally, " sooty " or " coal-like." 



COLMORN: The CORMORANT ; also the SHAG (Hett). 



COMMON AUK : The RAZORBILL. 



COMMON AVOCET. See AVOCET. 



COMMON BEE-EATER. See BEE-EATER. 



COMMON BITTERN. See BITTERN. 



COMMON BROWN or IVY OWL : The TAWNY OWL. ( Willughby. 



COMMON BULLFINCH. See BULLFINCH. 



COMMON BUNTING: The CORN-BUNTING. 



COMMON BUSTARD : The GREAT BUSTARD. 



COMMON BUZZARD [No. 243]. The name Common Buzzard 

 occurs in Willughby (1678). Turner (1544) and Merrett 

 (1667) call it the Buzzard only, as do succeeding writers 

 to the time of Pennant (1766), who calls it the Common 

 Buzzard. The derivation is from Lat. Buteo, through 

 Fr. Busard. 



COMMON COOT : The COOT. Occurs in most of the old authors 

 from Willughby to Montagu. 



COMMON CORMORANT : The CORMORANT. (Yarrell.) 



COMMON CRANE. See CRANE. 



COMMON CREEPER. A former appellation for the TREE- 

 CREEPER, to be found in most of the older authors from 

 Albin to Montagu. 



COMMON CROSSBILL [No. 33, Common Crossbill; No. 

 34, Scottish Crossbill.] Occurs in Willughby (1678) 

 as Cross -bill, and as Crossbill in most succeeding 

 authors. The first full account of the habits of feeding of 

 this bird is given by Yarrell (" Zool. Journ.," iv, pp. 459-65). 

 The legend of this bird having acquired its twisted beak by 



