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FASCEDDAR: The ARCTIC SKUA. (Newton.) From Gaelic 

 fasgadair, a squeezer. 



FAUVETTE. Properly the female of the ORPHEAN WARBLER . 

 Used by Buffon (" Hist. Nat.," (Ms., vol. v, p. 117). It has 

 also been applied to other species by various writers, the 

 Fauvette of some of the old English writers being the 

 GARDEN-WARBLER, while the Winter Fauvette of 

 Bewick is the HEDGE-SPARROW, and his Fauvette and 

 Lesser Fauvette the GARDEN- WARBLER. 



FEADAG. A Gaelic name for the GOLDEN PLOVER, and also 

 the REDSHANK. (Western Isles) lit. "the little 

 whistler." 



FEASER: The ARCTIC SKUA. (Bewick.) 



FEATHER-POKE. A common Provincial name for the curious 

 nest (poke pocket) of the LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE, 

 but commonly used for the bird. It is a general Yorkshire 

 name also for the CHIFFCHAFF, while in north and west 

 Yorkshire the WILLOW- WARBLER is called Feather- 

 poke, and in east Yorkshire the LONG-TAILED TIT- 

 MOUSE. Feather-bed is an Oxfordshire name for the 

 WILLOW-WARBLER, from its lining its nest with 

 feathers. Swainson says Feather-bird is a Northants. name 

 for the WHITETHROAT, which, however, does not use 

 feathers. Bolam says in Northumberland it is also applied 

 to the CHIFFCHAFF and WILLOW- WARBLER, while 

 Coward and Oldham apply it in Cheshire to the latter 

 species. 



FEDOA. Occurs in Turner for a species of Godwit. Newton 



says the species it was intended for cannot be discovered. 

 FELDFARE, FELDYFAR, FELDEFARE, FELTYFARE, FELDY, or 



FELFER. Common provincial names for the FIELDFARE. 



Occurs in Merrett as " Feldefare," and as " Felde " in 



Chaucer. 



FELL BLACKIE (Fell Blackbird) : The RING-OUZEL. (Sed- 

 bergh, Yorkshire.) 



FELT or FELTIE : The FIELDFARE. (Staffordshire, Notts., 

 Northumberland, Berwick, Northants.) In Ireland the 

 MISTLE-THRUSH is called Big Felt, and Thompson 

 says the REDWING is also known as Felt or Small 

 Felt, while in Yorkshire the latter species is called Felfer 

 and in South Scotland Feltie is applied to the MISTLE- 

 THRUSH. These names are corruptions or abbreviations 

 of " feldefare " (see Fieldfare). 



