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EASING SWALLOW or EAVES SWALLOW : The MARTIN. (Craven.) 

 See Easing Sparrow. 



EASTERLING. A name for the WIGEON. Rutty ("N.H. Co. 

 Dublin") gives Easter ling for the male and Lady fowl for the 

 female, and Latham says they were sold in London under 

 these names. 



EASTERN GOLDEN PLOVER : The ASIATIC GOLDEN PLOVER. 



EASTERN RUFOUS TURTLE-DOVE [No. 349]. An East 

 Asian species, recorded as occurring once near Scarborough. 



EASTERN SKY-LARK [No. 63]. A Western Asiatic form of the 

 Sky-lark. 



EAST SIBERIAN MEADOW-BUNTING [No. 50]. An Eastern 

 Asiatic species which has once reached our shores. 



EAVE SPARROW : The HOUSE-SPARROW. (Notts.) 

 EAVE SWALLOW : The MARTIN. (Notts.) 



EBB: The COMMON BUNTING. Montagu gives it as a 

 provincial name. 



EBB-SLEEPER : The DUNLIN. (Orkney and Shetland.) 



EDDER : The COMMON EIDER. (Montagu.) 



EGLE. Given by Aldrovandus as English name for an EAGLE. 



EGRET : The LITTLE EGRET. (Montagu.) 



EGRET HERON : The LITTLE EGRET. (Pennant.) 



Egyptian Goose. An introduced species, of which examples are 

 not infrequently shot, but without any evidence that they 

 are genuine visitors. It is included by Yarrell (1st ed.) 

 and others of our earlier authors. Macgillivray calls it 

 Egyptian Fox-Goose. 



EGYPTIAN NIGHTJAR [No. 203]. This species, so-called 

 because Lichtenstein's type-example came from Egypt, 

 ranges from the latter country to Afghanistan. 



EGYPTIAN VULTURE [No. 255]. The name is first found in 

 Latham ("Syn.," i, p. 13). It is the Alpine Vulture of 

 Bewick (1832) and other authors. Egyptian Vulture is 

 derived either from its inhabiting Egypt and other parts 

 of Africa, or else from Egypt being the locality of Linnseus's 

 type. 



EIDER-DUCK. The more general name for the COMMON 

 EIDER. 



EHEDYDD : The SKY-LARK. (North Wales) lit. " a flier." 



EHEDYDD BACH : The MEADOW-PIPIT and the ROCK-PIPIT. 



(North Wales) lit. " little lark." 



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