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being that its gaudily-coloured plumage suggested a jester's 

 parti-coloured coat. 



FOOT-ARSE or FOOT-IN- ARSE : The LITTLE GREBE. 

 (Cheshire.) 



FOR HWYAD DDU (Y). A Welsh name for the COMMON 

 SCOTER ; lit. " black sea-duck." 



FORK-TAILED KITE : The KITE. (Merrett.) Also formerly 

 occurred as Forked Kite (Thornton) and Fork-tail 

 (Yorkshire). 



FORK-TAILED PETREL : LEACH'S FORK-TAILED PETREL. 

 (Fleming, Yarrell, etc.) 



FORK-TAILED STORM PETREL : LEACH'S FORK-TAILED 

 PETREL. (Selby.) 



FRANK: The COMMON HERON. (Suffolk, Essex, Stirling.) 

 From its cry. 



FRAO. A Cornish name for the SHORT-EARED OWL. 



FRECKLED HERON. The AMERICAN BITTERN was first 

 described under this name by Col. Montagu in 1813 in the 

 Supplement to his " Ornithological Dictionary." 



FRECKLED SANDPIPER : The KNOT (when changing to summer- 

 plumage). 



FRENCH BIRD : The FIELDFARE is so called at Wirral, 

 Cheshire, according to Coward and Oldham. 



FRENCH GALLEY-BIRD : The LESSER SPOTTED WOOD- 

 PECKER. (Sussex.) "Galley-bird" signifies merry or 

 laughing bird, in allusion to its loud call, being derived 

 from A.Sax. gal=merry. For the significance of " French," 

 see French Magpie. 



FRENCH HECKLE : The LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 

 See above, and also " Heckle." 



FRENCH HERON : The BITTERN. (Provincial.) 



FRENCH LINNET : The LESSER REDPOLL (Yorkshire.) The 

 CHAFFINCH (South Holderness) ; the BRAMBLING 



(North Yorkshire). 



FRENCH MAGPIE or FRENCH PIE. Names often given to the 

 GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER in the southern 

 counties of England, while Garner gives the first form also 

 as a Staffordshire name for this bird and Swainson the 

 second form as a Leicestershire name. It is also locally 

 used for the GREAT GREY SHRIKE, which is referred to 

 in Walton's " Angler " as French Pie : and in each case 

 implies a stranger or foreigner, it being a common practice 

 to designate an uncommon bird by the name of its supposed 



