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MOLLY MAWK. See Mallemuck. 



MOLLY WASH-DISH: The PIED WAGTAIL. (Hampshire, 

 Somerset.) 



MOLROOKEN: The GREAT CRESTED GREBE. (Lough 

 Neagh. ) 



MONK : The BULLFINCH (male). An allusion to its black 

 cap or hood. 



MONTAGU'S HARRIER [No. 246]. The name seems to occur 

 first in Yarrell (1843) perhaps as a translation of Temminck's 

 Busard montagu (" Man.," I, p. 76). It is so called in honour 

 of Col. Montagu, as he was for long supposed to be the 

 first describer of the species under the name of Ash-coloured 

 Falcon (" Orn. Diet.," I, 1802). He was, however, antici- 

 pated by Albin, who in 1738 published a plate of the species 

 which was later used by Linnaeus (" Syst. Nat.," i, p. 89, 

 1758) in d( scribing the bird under the name of Falco 

 pygargus, thus antedating Montagu. 



MONTHLY BIRD: The FIELDFARE. (Forfar.) Swainson 

 thought it might stand for mountain bird. 



MOONIE : The GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN is said to be so 

 called at Holy Island, while in Roxburghshire it is called 

 " moon " or " muin." It is said that these names are 

 derived from the frequent appearance of the bird during 

 a full " Hunter's Moon " (Bolam). Mr. Witherby tells me 

 "Shiely" is a more frequent Holy -Island name for 

 this bird. 



MOOR BIRD : The RED GROUSE is sometimes so called in 

 Yorkshire. 



MOOR BLACKBIRD : The RING-OUZEL. (Cheshire and North 

 Yorkshire.) 



MOOR BUZZARD or MORE BUZZARD : The MARSH-HARRIER, 

 (Probably obsolete.) Formerly a common indigenous 

 species before the draining of the fens and marshes, from its 

 partiality to which the bird takes its name, the " moor " 

 being equivalent to "mire" or marsh. Willughby (1678) 

 calls it the " more-Buzzard," and later writers up to Fleming 

 (1842) call it " Moor-Buzzard." 



MOOR COCK or MOOR FOWL : The RED GROUSE. (Sibbald.) 

 Moor-hen is also a name for the female. 



MOOR COOT : The MOORHEN. (Provincial.) 



MOOR CROW : The HOODED CROW. (Nidd Valley, York- 

 shire.) 



MOOR DOTTEREL : The DOTTEREL. (Whitby, Yorkshire.) 



