120 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



HEBOG YR HEDYDD. A Welsh name for the HOBBY; lit. 



" lark falcon." 



HEBRIDAL SANDPIPER : The TURNSTONE. (Pennant.) 

 HECCO. An obsolete name for the GREEN WOODPECKER, 

 from A. Sax hicgan=to try. Occurs in Dray ton's 

 " The Owl " as " sharp neb'd hecco." 

 HECKLE or HEEKLE : The GREEN WOODPECKER. From the 



same derivation as Hecco. 



HECKYMAL, HACKYMAL, HACKMAL, HAGMAL, HICKMAL : The 

 BLUE TITMOUSE. (Cornwall and Devonshire.) From 

 the stiong pecks which it deals with its bill, according to 

 Swainson. Heckymal is also a Dartmoor name for the 

 GREAT TITMOUSE. 



HEDGE- ACCENTOR. Sometimes applied to the HEDGE- 

 SPARROW, on account of its belonging to the former 

 genus Accentor, and to avoid the misnomer " Sparrow."' 

 The name is found in Selby (1825) and was adopted by 

 Yarrell (1843). 



HEDGE-BETTY : The HEDGE-SPARROW. (Provincial.) 

 HEDGE-CHANTER : The HEDGE-SPARROW. (Macgillivray.) 



Also a local name in Yorkshire. 



HEDGE-CHAT: The HEDGE-S PARRO W. (Northants.) 

 HEDGE-CHICKEN: The WHITETHROAT. (Provincial.) 

 HEDGE-CHICKER : The WHEATEAR. (Provincial.) 

 HEDGE-CREEPER : The HEDGE-SPARROW. (Yorkshire.) 



HEDGE-JUG: The HEDGE-SPARROW. (Provincial.) From 



the shape of the nest. 



HEDGE-MIKE : The HEDGE-SPARROW. (Sussex.) 

 HEDGE-SPARROW [No. 188, British Hedge-Sparrow ; No. 187, 

 Continental Hedge-Sparrow]. The name occurs as 

 " Hedge-sparr'w " in Chaucer, and as " Hedge sparrow " 

 in Turner (1544), in Merrett, and in Willughby; 

 and we find it stated in the latter that, "In the 

 nest of this bird the Cuckow is said to lay her ego-, which 

 the foolish bird sits upon, hatches and brings up the young 

 one till it be fledg'd and can shift for itself." Chaucer also 

 alludes to the Cuckoo in his " Parliament of Foules " as the 

 " murtherer " of the Hedge-Sparrow that brought it forth. 

 Turner identifies the Troglodytes of ^Etius and others with 

 the Hedge-Sparrow, but it is of course the WREN. 

 Hartert has lately separated the resident British form from 

 the Continental form, only a few examples of which have, 

 however, yet been certainly identified here. 



