64 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



CRESTED DIVER : The TUFTED DUCK. (Ireland.) 



CRESTED GREBE : The GREAT CRESTED GREBE. Albin 

 calls it Crested Diver. 



CRESTED HERON : The COMMON HERON. (Provincial.) 

 CRESTED or GREEN LAPWING : The LAPWING. (Selby). 



CRESTED LARK [No. 60]. So named from its very distinct 

 and pointed crest. The name Crested Lark occurs first 

 in Willughby (1678). It was added to the British List by 

 Yarrell in 1845 (" Brit. Birds," Suppl.) The bird was 

 formerly considered to be of medicinal value. Willughby 

 observes that " Dioscorides prescribes this bird to be eaten 

 roasted, Galen in some places of his w r orks roasted, in 

 some places boiled, to assuage Colic pains. Marcellus 

 Virgilius prefers the powder of it, put in an earthen pot, 

 and dried or burnt in an oven, taken in water to the 

 quantity of two or three spoonfuls, before all other medi- 

 cines for the Colic." 



CRESTED PURPLE HERON : The PURPLE HERON. (Selby.) 

 CRESTED SHAG : The SHAG. (Montagu.) 



CRESTED TITMOUSE [No. 94, Scottish Crested Titmouse; 

 No. 95, Northern Crested Titmouse; No. 96, Central 

 European Crested Titmouse]. Occurs first under this name 

 hi Willughby (1678). Since the time of Macgillivray and 

 Yarrell it has been commonly abbreviated to "Crested Tit." 



CREUMHACH. A Gaelic name for the ROOK. 



CREW : The MANX SHEARWATER. (Scilly Isles.) 



CREYR GLAS: The COMMON HERON. (North Wales) lit. 

 " blue crier." Another name is CRECHYDD (screamer). 



CRICKALEEL: The GARGANEY (?). Occurs in Merrett (see 

 Cricket Teal). 



CRICKET BIRD: The GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER. (Nor- 

 folk.) 



CRICKET TEAL : The GARGANEY. From its cry. Hett also 

 gives Crick as a name for the species. 



CRISTEL-HAWK : The KESTREL. Derived from Fr. cristel= 



kestrel. 

 CROCKER : The BRENT GOOSE. Also the BLACK-HEADED 



GULL. 

 CROMAN COILLTEACH : The WOODCOCK. (lona and Mull) 



lit. " crookbill of the woods." 



