60 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



CORN-BUNTING [No. 42]. This species is also commonly 

 known as the Common Bunting rather a misnomer, as in 

 many localities it is not " common." It is called " Bunting " 

 simply by the older writers from Willughby to Donovan, 

 Montagu (1802) being the first to name it Common Bunting. 

 The word Bunting (Old Eng. " buntyle," Scots "buntlin") 

 is of uncertain origin. Skeat suggests a connexion with 

 bunten=to butt; he also cites Scottish buntin=short and 

 thick or plump, which Newton, however, thinks likely to 

 have been derived from the bird. Graham (" Birds of 

 lona and Mull") has suggested Scots bunt=g&y ) lively, or 

 brisk. 



CORNCRAKE. An alternative name for the LAND-RAIL. Rutty 

 spells it " Corn-Creek," while it becomes Corn -drake in 

 North Yorkshire, Corn-rake at Hawes, Yorkshire, and 

 Corn-scrack in Aberdeen. 



CORN GOOSE : The BEAN-GOOSE. From its partiality to 

 grain. 



CORNICYLL, CORNICYLL Y GORS, CORNICYLL Y WAEN, CORN Y 



WICH, or CORNOR Y GWENNYDD. Welsh names for the 



LAPWING ; Cornicyll=Plover. 

 CORNICYLL CADWYNOG, CWTYN MODEWYOG : The RINGED 



PLOVER. (North Wales.) Both names signify tfc ringed 



plover." 

 CORNICYLL LLWYD : The GREY PLOVER. (North Wales.) 



CORNISH CHOUGH : The CHOUGH. Occurs in Turner (1544) as 

 " Cornish Choghe," and in Merrett, Willughby and Pennant 

 as " Cornish Chough." The prefix Cornish was formerly 

 necessary on account of the name Chough being also applied 

 not infrequently to the JACKDAW, which is so called by 

 Turner and by Merrett. 



CORNISH DAW : The CHOUGH (Montagu and Rutty) ; also 

 occurs as Cornish Jack. 



CORNISH GANNET : The GREAT SKUA. (Willughby.) 

 CORNISH PHEASANT : The MAGPIE. (Cornwall.) 

 CORNWALL KAE : The CHOUGH. (Sibbald.) 

 CORNWILLEN : The LAPWING. (Cornwall.) 



CORNY KEEVOR : The MISTLE -THRUSH. So called about 

 Belfast (Thompson). 



CORRA RIATHACH. A Gaelic name for the COMMON HERON. 



CORS HWYAD. A Welsh name for the MALLARD ; lit. " marsh 

 duck." 



