DINNICK DOTTEREL. 75 



DITCH BLACKIE : The RING-OUZEL. (East Lothian.) 

 DITCH LARK : The MEADOW-PIPIT. (Skipton, Yorkshire.) 

 DIVE-DAPPER: The GREAT CRESTED GREBE (Merrett) ; 

 also the LITTLE GREBE (see " Didapper "), said to be 

 in use in Lincolnshire. The name occurs in Shakespeare 

 (" Venus and Adonis "), but it is doubtful for which species : 

 Like a dive-dapper peering through a wave, 

 Who, being looked on, ducks as quickly in. 



Swainson gives Dive an' dop and Divy Duck as Norfolk 

 names for the LITTLE GREBE. 



DIVER : The COMMON POCHARD and the GOLDENEYE. 

 (Roxburgh.) 



DIVING DUCK : The GOLDENEYE. (Shetland Isles.) 



DIVING PIGEON : The BLACK GUILLEMOT. (Earn Isles.) 



DOB, DOUP, DOTJPE, DOWP, or DOWK : The CARRION-CROW. 

 (Yorkshire, Westmorland.) 



DOBCHICK : The LITTLE GREBE. (Provincial.) It occurs in 

 Willughby, and is an equivalent of Dabchick. Dobber is 

 said to be a casual form of the name in Yorkshire. 



DOG-TAIL : The LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. (Cheshire.) 



DOLLPOPPER. A provincial name for the MOORHEN, according 

 to Hett. 



DONEY : The HEDGE-SPARROW. (Lancashire.) 



DORBIE : The DUNLIN. (Banff.) 



DOR-HAWK or DORR-HAWK : The NIGHTJAR ; from its feeding 

 on the mischievous " Dor-beetle." It occurs in Charleton 

 (1668), and is still in use in Cornwall and East Suffolk 

 apparently. Hett also gives Dog-hawk, perhaps a mis- 

 spelling. 



DOT PLOVER : The DOTTEREL. (Norfolk.) 



DOTTEREL [No. 356]. According to Newton, the word is 

 a diminutive of dolt. The name appears as Doterell in 

 Caius (or Kay), who also calls it morinellus, its present 

 specific name. Drayton (1613) has " Dotterell." It occurs 

 in Merrett 's list (1667) as Dotterel ; Willughby has " Dot- 

 trel," as have also most of the later writers up to Montagu 

 (1802). Kay remarks that it is a very foolish bird, and is 

 taken in the night time, by the light of a candle, by imitating 

 the gestures of the fowler, for if he stretches out an arm 

 the bird also stretches out a wing, if he a foot the bird like- 

 wise a foot ; in brief, whatever the fowler does, the bird 

 does the same, and so being intent upon the man's gestures 

 it is deceived, and covered with the net spread for it. The 



