

.102 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



GRASS-CRAKE : The LAND-RAIL. (Ackworth, Yorkshire.) 

 Grass Quake (Barnsley) is, perhaps, a corruption. 



GRASS DRAKE : The LAND-KAIL. (West Yorkshire.) Gress 

 Drake and Dress Drake are corruptions. 



GRASSHOPPER CHIRPER. Macgillivray's name for the GRASS- 

 HOPPER-WARBLER 



GRASSHOPPER LARK : The GRASSHOPPER- WARBLER. 

 (Pennant.) 



GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER [No. 133]. Occurs first as the 

 " Grasshopper Lark " in Pennant's " British Zoology " 

 (1766 ed.), as " Grasshopper Lark Warbler " in his later 

 editions, and as the GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER in 

 Latham's " Synopsis," but is first mentioned by Willughby 

 (1678) as the "Titlark that sings like a Grosshopper " 

 (p. 207). 



GRASS MUMRUFFIN : The WILLOW- WARBLER. (Worcester- 

 shire.) 



GRASS QUAIL : The LAND-RAIL. (Cheshire.) 



GRASS WHEW. A Yorkshire name for the female WIGEON. 

 W T hew is from the note ; Grass probably refers to sea- 

 grass (Zostera) of which they are very fond (Wither by). 



GRASS WREN or GRASS WARBLER. (Cleveland, Yorkshire.) 

 Names for both the WILLOW-WARBLER and the 

 CHIFFCHAEF. 



GRAY : The GADWALL. (Willughby.) 



GREAT ALLAN or BIG ALLAN : The POMATORHINE SKUA. 

 (Yorkshire coast.) 



GREAT ASH-COLOURED BUTCHER BIRD : The GREAT GREY 

 SHRIKE. (Pennant.) 



GREAT ASH-COLOURED SHRIKE : The GREAT GREY SHRIKE. 

 (Bewick, 1797.) 



GREAT AUK [No. 444]. The present name of this species is 

 not of any antiquity. The older name is Penguin, which 

 occurs in Pennant (1766), but the latter calls it Great Auk 

 in the 1776 edition, as do also Latham, Lewin, Walcott, 

 Montagu, etc. Willughby (1678) calls it "the bird called 

 Penguin by our sea-men." Sibbald (1684) mentions it as 

 "the bird "called Gare " (see Gare-fowl). This fine species 

 is thought to have been formerly an inhabitant of the north 

 of Scotland and the Scottish Isles, yet whether it was of 

 more than accidental occurrence elsewhere than in St. 

 Kilda is open to grave doubt. Gould thinks it " doubtless 

 existed, and probably bred, up to the year 1830," on the 



