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DELOR Y DREW. A Welsh name for the GREEN WOOD- 

 PECKER ; lit. " oak pecker " (?). 



Demoiselle Crane. This beautiful species cannot properly bo 

 included as a British bird. The name Demoiselle (a yoim/r 

 lady) is borrowed from the French, by whom it is also 

 applied to several other birds. 



DENMARK CROW : The HOODED CROW. (Humber district.) 



DERYN COCH Y FFLAM : The REDSTART. (North Wales) lit*. 

 " red fire-bird." 



DERYN DU'R LLAN : The SWIFT. (North Wales) lit, " black 

 bird of the church." 



DESERT- WHEATEAR [No. 168, Western Desert Wheat- 

 ear; No. 169, Eastern Desert Wheatear]. The Western 

 form of this species is confined to the African Sahara, 

 while the eastern form is Asiatic, hence the necessity for 

 distinguishing the two races. 



DEVIL : The SWIFT. (Berks.) 



DEVIL-BIRD, DEVIL-SCREAMER, DEVIL-SHRIEKEE, DEVIL 

 SQUEAKER, DEVIL-SCREW. Yorkshire name;* for the 

 SWIFT. Devil- Screamer is also a Hampshire name for the 

 species, and Devil-screecher a Devonshire name. 



DEVILING : The SWIFT. (Bewick.) It is in use as a pro- 

 vincial name in Nottinghamshire, Lancashire Westmor- 

 land and East Anglia. Devilin' or Dicky Devlin' are also 

 north and west Yorkshire names. 



DEVIL'S BIRD : The PIED WAGTAIL (Ireland) ; also the 

 YELLOW BUNTING (Scotland) : because, says Macgil- 

 livray, its song is interpreted as signifying, " Deil, deil, deil 

 take ye," that is, the cruel nesters. Devil-bird and Devil's- 

 Bitch are also among the Yorkshire names of the SWIFT. 



DEVIL SWALLOW : The SWIFT. (Provincial.) 



DICK DTJNNOCK or DICKY DUNNOCK : The HEDGE-SPARROW. 

 (Provincial.) See Dunnock. 



DICKIE-DI-DEE : The COMMON SANDPIPER. (Lancashire.) 



DICKY PUG : The WREN. (Cheshire.) 



DIDAPPER or DIEDAPPER : The LITTLE GREBE. (Dorsetshire, 

 Hampshire, Yorkshire, Norfolk.) A corruption of Dive- 

 dapper. Nares says it signifies " Little Diver." Occurs 

 as Didapper in Willughby and Ray. 



DIKE SMOULER : The HEDGE-SPARROW. Occurs in Turner, 

 who says it signifies a bird that hides itself in hedges. 



DINBOETH (Y) : The REDSTART. (North Wales) lit. " hot- 

 rump." 



