82 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



EHEDYDD Y COED : The WOOD-LAKK and the TREE-PIPIT. 

 (North Wales) lit. " wood lark." 



ELCYSEN : The BARNACLE-GOOSE. (North Wales.) 

 ELERCH. A Cornish name for the wild 'Swan (the WHOOPER). 

 ELIGUY : The COMMON GUILLEMOT. (South Pembroke.) 



ELK. An east Yorkshire and Northumberland name for the 

 WHOOPER SWAN. Occurs in Willughby, Edwards and 

 other writers. It is cognate with the Icelandic Alft. 



ELM-TREE GOLDFINCH : The GOLDFINCH. (" Rather small 

 size, supposed to have been bred in an elm tree." HETT.) 



ELRCK. A Welsh name for a wild Swan (the WHOOPER). 



EMBER GOOSE or IMMER GOOSE : The GREAT NORTHERN 

 DIVER. (Orkney and Shetland.) Swainson gives Ammer 

 or Emmer Goose as Aberdeen and East Lothian names. 

 (See Immer.) 



EMMET-HUNTER. This name for the WRYNECK is found in 

 Charleton (1668), and still survives as a provincial name ; 

 it is derived from the bird's partiality to ants. 



ENGLISH HECKLE : The WRYNECK. (Provincial.) 



ENGLISH ORTOLAN : The WHEATEAR. Perhaps from its 

 gastronomical qualities. 



ENTERMEWERS. A falconer's term for Hawks of the second 

 year, after they have moulted their immature -plumage. 



EOIN RUA. A Gaelic name for the RED GROUSE. (Western 

 Islands) lit. " red bird." 



Eos. A Welsh name for the NIGHTINGALE ; lit. " nightin- 

 gale." 



EPICURIAN WARBLER : The PIED FLYCATCHER. (Hett.) 



EQUESTRIAN SANDPIPER : The RUFF. (Provincial.) 



ER. A Cornish name for an Eagle. 



ERN BLEATER : The COMMON SNIPE. 



ERNE : The WHITE-TAILED EAGLE. From A.Sax. Earn. It 

 appears to have been formerly a falconer's term for the 

 male to distinguish it from the larger female, called Eagle. 

 Occurs in Turner (1544) and Sibbald (1684) ; now chiefly 

 used in the Orkneys and Shetlands, and perhaps other 

 parts of Scotland. Scott has : 



Upon her eyrie nods the Erne. LADY OF THE LAKE. 

 The name was sometimes spelt iron, according to Colonel 

 Thornton. 



ERYR CYNFFON WEN, ERYR TINWYN, or MOR ERYR. Welsh 

 names for the WHITE-TAILED EAGLE ; the first two 



