78 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



DRYW WEN: The WHITETHROAT and the GARDEN 

 WARBLER. (North Wales) lit. u white wren/' 



DUBH CHRAIGE. A Gaelic name for the RING-OUZEL. 



DUCKER. A provincial name for the DIPPER, according to 

 Macgillivray (see also " Douker "). 



DUCK HAWK: The NORTH AMERICAN PEREGRINE is 

 usually so called ; also applied to the PEREGRINE 

 FALCON (Montagu) and the MARSH-HARRIER (Bewick). 



DULWILLY. A local name for the RINGED PLOVER. Skeat 

 says it signifies dull of will or stupid. 



DUN : The KNOT. (Cheshire.) See also DUNNE. 



DUNBIRD. A general name formerly applied by decoy-men and 

 gunners to the smaller species of ducks, especially the 

 COMMON POCHARD. Montagu gives it as a provincial 

 name for this bird, while Bolam also gives it as a Northum- 

 berland name, and Nelson and Clarke as a Yorkshire name 

 for the same species. Nelson and Clarke also mention 

 DUNPOCKER (Dun poker, or Dun Pochard) as a name on 

 the river Hull. 



DUN-CROW: The HOODED CROW. Montagu gives it as 

 a provincial name, and Swainson says it is a Craven name 

 for the species. 



DUN CURRE : The COMMON POCHARD. (Provincial.) 



DUN DIVER : The immature or female GOOSANDER and 

 RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. (Yorkshire.) Occurs 

 in Willughby for the former. 



DUNG-BIRD : The HOOPOE. (Charleton.) 



DUNG-HUNTER: The immature GREAT BLACK-BACKED 

 GULL. (Pennant.) Dung-bird is also applied to the 

 ARCTIC SKUA (Bewick). Pennant says the former 

 pursues the lesser Gulls until they void their excrement 

 from fear, which it catches up and swallows. What really 

 happens is that the pursued disgorge the fish they have 

 recently swallowed. 



DUNLIN [No. 373]. So called from the colour of its plumage, 

 from A. Sax. dunn dark or obscure, lit. a little " dun " 

 bird, lin (=ling) being a diminutive. Mr. Harting has 

 argued that this name should be spelled " Dunling " (see 

 " Field," Jan. 12th, 1884, and " Brit. Birds," Jan., 1912). He 

 quotes the name as occurring in the " Durham Household 

 Book " containing the accounts of the Monastery of Duiham 

 A.D. 1530-34, as " Dunling," but the change, even though 

 countenanced by Prof. Newton, seems unnecessary, as if 



