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CROMAN LOCHAIDH. A Gaelic name for the KITE. Croman is 

 used in lona and Mull, according to Graham, not only for 

 the KITE, but other large hawks. 



CROMAN LOIN. A Gaelic name for the COMMON SNIPE. 



CROM NAR ANILEAG : The WOODCOCK. (lona and Mull) lit. 

 " crooked thing of the leaves." 



CROOKED BILL : The AVOCET. Montagu gives it as a pro- 

 vincial name. 

 CROPIEDYDD : The TREECREEPER. (North Wales) lit. 



" creeper." 



CROSSBILL. See COMMON CROSSBILL. 

 CROTCHET-TAILED PUTTOCK : The KITE. Occurs in Mac- 



gillivray. Swainson gives " Crotch tail " as an Essex name 



for the species. Crotchet-tailed =fork-t ailed. 

 CROUP Y CRAW. A North Country name for the RAVEN. 



(Swainson.) Croupy would be from its harsh cry, and 



craw=crow. 

 CROW : The CARRION-CROW is often so termed without the 



prefix. Pennant (1766) calls the species " Crow " simply. 



The name is also applied popularly to the ROOK. 

 CRUCHET: The RING-DOVE. Chiefly North of England or 



Scotland ; probably a variant of " Cushat." 

 CRYEL HERON or DWARF HERON. Turner's name for a species 



of Heron, which I take to be the LITTLE EGRET. 

 CUACH. A Gaelic name for the CUCKOO. (lona and Mull.) 



Imitative of its cry. 

 CUCKEE : The MANX SHEARWATER. 



CUCKOO [No. 214]. The name is onomapoetic, and is such a 

 well received example of a sound-name, that the bird has 

 very few provincial names. This is also the case with its 

 name in most ancient and modern languages, i.e. Gr. 

 coccys, Lat. cuculus, Fr. coucou, Ger. kuckuck, Welsh cwccw 

 and Cog, Gaelic Cuthag, Sanskrit kokila, etc. In Old and 

 Middle English it occurs as coccou, cuccu, cukkow, cocow ; 

 later it occurs as Cuckow. Chaucer spells it " Cuckowe " ; 

 Turner (1544) has " cukkouu " and " gouke." Merrett 

 (1667) has " Cuckoe or Guckoe." The spelling " Cuckoo " 

 is found in Barlow's plates (1655). A " Cuckoo Song " of 

 the thirteenth century (from the Harleian MS., 978) com- 

 mencing : 



Somer is icumen in 



Lhude sing cuccu. 



will be found in the " Trans. Philolog. Soc.," 1868-9. 



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