162 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Mountain Partridge. A variety of the COMMON PARTRIDGE. 

 MOUNTAIN SPARROW. An old name for the TREE-SPARROW. 



It occurs in Albin, Pennant and Montagu, and is also a local 



Cheshire name for the species at the present day. 

 MOUNTAIN THRUSH : The RING-OUZEL. (Kirkcudbright.) 

 MOUSE EALCON. A name for the KESTREL. (Hett.) 

 MOUSE-HAWK. A provincial name for the SHORT-EARED 



OWL (Montagu); also the KESTREL (Loftus-in- 



Cleveland, and Beverley, Yorkshire). 

 MUD-DABBER or MUD - STOPPER : The NUTHATCH. (South 



England.) So called from its habit of plastering round its 



nesting-hole with mud. 



MUD LARK. A name for the ROCK-PIPIT. (Hett.) 

 MUD PLOVER. A name for the GREY PLOVER from its 



frequenting flats on the sea-shore. 



MUFFIE WREN : The WILLOW- WARBLER. (Renfrew.) 

 MUFFIT: The WHITETHROAT. (Scotland.) Because the 



feathers of the head and neck stand out so as to suggest 



a muffler. 

 MUGGY : The WHITETHROAT. (North Yorkshire.) Newton 



thinks it is possibly cognate with the latter part of Germ. 



Grasmucke (Grass-Midge), but perhaps it is only a corruption 



of Meggie, as Nelson and Clarke say both names are in use 



in the North Riding of Yorkshire. 

 Mum DUCK (MooR DUCK) : The MALLARD. (Stirling.) 

 MUIR EUN (pron. murr-yan) : The COMMON GUILLEMOT. 



(Horn Head, Donegal.) 



MUIR FOWL or MUIR HEN : The RED GROUSE. (Scotland.) 

 MULE : The SCAUP DUCK. (Wexford.) 

 MULFRAN, MORFRAN. Welsh names for the CORMORANT. The 



first signifies " shy crow," the second " sea-crow." 

 MULFRAN GOPOG, MORFRAN GOPOG : The SHAG. (North Wales) 



lit. " crested cormorant." 

 MULFRAN WEN : The GANNET. (North Wales) lit. " white 



cormorant." 

 MULFRAN WERDD, MORFRAN WERDD : The SHAG. (North 



Wales) lit. "green cormorant." 

 MULLET. Willughby gives this as a Scarborough name for the 



PUFFIN. 



MULLET HAWK. An old name for the OSPREY. 

 MUM-RUFFIN : The LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. (Worcester- 

 shire, Shropshire.) 



