160 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



MOOR GAME : The RED GROUSE. (Yorkshire ; and Longden- 

 dale, Cheshire.) 



MOOR GLEAD. A Border name for the HEN-HARRIER. 



MOOR HAWK : The MARSH-HARRIER (formerly). 



MOORHEN [No. 460]. It is also commonly known as the 

 Water Hen. Moor is from A. Sax. mor, and was anciently 

 equivalent to morass or bog, the name having therefore 

 much the same meaning as Water Hen. The name Moor 

 Hen occurs in Merrett (1667). Willughby spells it " More- 

 hen." Turner (1544) has "water hen, or Mot hen," and 

 alludes to the bird as generally haunting " Moats which 

 surround the houses of the great " and fish-ponds. 



MOOR LINNET or MOOR PEEP : The TWITE. (Cheshire.) 



MOOR PEEP: The MEADOW-PIPIT. (Cheshire.) 



MOOR PIPIT : The MEADOW-PIPIT. (Northumberland.) 



MOOR POUT or MOOR POOT : The young RED GROUSE. (York- 

 shire.) 



MOOR THRUSH : The RING-OUZEL. (Sedbergh, Yorkshire.) 



MOOR-TITLING : The STONECHAT. (Willughby.) Also occurs 

 in Merrett (1667) but mis-printed " Moor-titing." Moor 

 Tit or Titling is still a Cleveland (Yorkshire) name for the 

 species. The name is, perhaps, more often applied to the 

 MEADOW-PIPIT in North England and Scotland. 



MORANT : The MOORHEN. (Willughby.) Swainson thinks 

 it signifies Moor-ent ? 



MORE-COCK : The RED GROUSE. Occurs in Willughby. 

 (Same as Moor-cock.) 



MORE-HEN : The MOORHEN. (Willughby.) Same as Moor- 

 hen (q.v.). 



MORHEN : The female BLACK GROUSE (?). (Turner.) Mr. 

 Evans supposed it to be the PTARMIGAN, but Turner 

 says it is the bird he took to be the " Attagen " (q.v.). 



MORILLON. A fowler's name for the GOLDENEYE, but 

 applied only to immature or female birds, which were 

 formerly supposed to be of a different species. From 

 Fr. morillon. 



MORRA : The RAZORBILL. (North Wales.) From its guttural 

 cry. 



MORREL HEN : The GREAT SKUA. (See Murrel Hen.) 



MORTETTER : The STONECHAT. Occurs in Turner. 



MORWENNOL DDU : The BLACK TERN. (North Wales) lit. 

 " black sea-swallow." 



