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KITTIWAKE GULL [No. 437]. Often known as " Kittiwake " 

 simply. The name first appears in Sibbald (1684), but 

 Ray (" Itirierary," 1671) has Cattiwike, derived from an 

 attempted rendering of its cry. Willughby calls it " Bello- 

 nius's ash-coloured Gull, called in Cornwall Tarrock," and 

 under the latter name the immature bird was treated of 

 up to the time of Montagu as a supposed distinct species. 



KITTY CAREW : The MANX SHEARWATER. (Provincial.) 



KITTY COOT : The MOORHEN. (Dorset.) 



KITTY WREN or KTTTY-ME-WREN. A Border name for the 

 WREN, where accoiding to Bolam it takes the place of 

 the familiar name Jenny Wren. In Yorkshire 'it occurs 

 also as "Kitty" only. 



KNIFE-BILL : The PUFFIN. (Provincial.) 



KNOT [No. 371]. The name Knot occurs in Willughby, who 

 remarks that "King Knout" is reported to have been so 

 fond of them that from him they got the name of Kntos 

 or Knouts. The authority for the derivation of the name 

 from Canute appears, however, to rest with Camden (1607) 

 who has " Knotts, i. Canuti aves." Du Bartas (" Divine 

 Weekes and Wordes," 1633) calls it "Gnat-snap." Sir 

 Thomas Browne has "Gnatts or Knots" (see Newton's 

 "Diet. Bds." on this latter). BufEon calls it Le Canut. 

 Drayton (" Polyolbion," 1613) speaks of it as 



The Knot- that called was Canute's Bird of Old. 

 In winter-plumage it was distinguished by Pennant and 

 other writers under the name of " Ash-coloured Sandpiper." 



KNOT. The RINGED PLOVER is so called about Belfast. 

 (Swainson.) 



KNOT-CURLEW. A name for the WH1MBREL. (Hett.) 



KROCKET : The OYSTERCATCHER. (Aberdeen.) 



KRYSSAT. A Cornish name for the KESTREL. 



KYTE : The KITE. (Turner, Blome, and others.) 



KYVELLAK. A Cornish name for the WOODCOCK. 



LABBE : The ARCTIC SKUA. (Bewick.) 



LACHA-BHLAR. A Gaelic name for the COOT. 



LACHA CHINN NAINE. A Gaelic name for the MALLARD. 



LACH CHOLONSA. A Gaelic name for the EIDER Duck 

 (=Cclonsay Duck.) 



LADY BIRD : The PINTAIL. (Dublin Bay.) 



LADY-FOWL. Said to be a name for the WIGEON . 



LADY HEN: The SKY-LARK. (Shetlands.) Signifies "Our 

 Lady's Hen." 



