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GYR FALCON : The PEREGRINE FALCON. (Longdendale, 

 Cheshire.) 



HACKBOLT : The GREAT SHEARWATER. (Scilly Isles.) 



HACKET or HACKLET : The K1TTIWAKE. (Provincial.) 



HAGDOWN : The GREAT SHEARWATER. (Dungarvan, Isle 

 of Man ; and coast of Ireland.) 



HAGGARD or HAGGARD FALCON : The PEREGRINE FALCON 

 in adult-plumage. (Willughby.) 



HAGGARD HAWK. In falconry, a full-grown hawk, taken in 

 its unreclaimed state. 



HAGGISTER or HAGISTER. An old Kentish name for the 

 MAGPIE. Occurs in Scott's " Discovery of Witchcraft," 

 where it is said that, " to prognosticate that guests approach 

 to your house upon the chattering of pies or haggisters is 

 altogether vanity and superstition." 



HAIGRIE^: The COMMON HERON. (Shetland Isles.) 



HAIR-TAIL : The GARDEN- WARBLER. (Nidd Valley, York- 

 shire.) 



Hairy Woodpecker. An American species said by Latham, 

 Montagu and others, without sufficient evidence, to have 

 reached our shores. 



HALCYON : The KINGFISHER. (Poetical.) 



HALF-BIRD. A fowler's name for the TEAL, COMMON 

 POCHARD, SCAUP-DUCK and other small ducks which 

 bring lesser prices than the larger kirids. It seems to be 

 proper to any land under the size of the MALLARD. It 

 is used in the Fens, also in Norfolk and elsewhere. 



HALF-CURLEW: The WHIMBREL. (Norfolk, Yorkshire.) So 

 called from its being a miniature of the COMMON CURLEW 

 (see Half -bird). The name is also applied in Norfolk to 

 the BAR-TAILED GODWIT. 



HALF NEBB : The RED-NECKED PHALAROPE. (Provincial.) 

 HALF-SNIPE : The JACK SNIPE. (Norfolk.) So called from 



its being much smaller than the COMMON SNIPE. 

 HALF WHAUP : The BAR-TAILED GODWIT. (Forfar). An 



equivalent of Half-Curlew. 



HAMBURG GROSBEAK : The TREE-SPARROW. (Latham.) 

 HAMBURG TREE-CREEPER : The TREE-SPARROW. (Albin.) 

 HAMMER BLATE (or BLEAT): The COMMON SNIPE. (Provincial.) 

 HANDSAW: The HERON. A corruption of " Heronseugh." 



Occurs in Hamlet (act n, sc. 2) : "I know a hawk from 



a handsaw." 



