OUR PARTRICK. 173 



OYSTERCATCHER [No. 351]. Occurs in Kay (1570) and in 

 Willughby (1678) under the name of Sea-Pie, and Pennant 

 (1766) uses the same name, but later writers call it the 

 Pied Oyster-catcher. Oyster-Catcher is first used by 

 Catesby (" Nat. Hist. Carolina ") in 1731 for the American 

 species, which he (probably erroneously) believed to feed on 

 oysters, and was adopted in this country by Pennant. 

 OYSTER PLOVER. A name for the OYSTERCATCHER. 



(Swainson.) 



PADGE, PUDGE, or PUDGE OWL : The BARN-OWL. (Leicester- 

 shire.) 



PAL : The PUFFIN. (North Wales) lit. " Polly " (for Sea- 

 parrot). 



PALE-BREASTED BRENT GOOSE. See BRENT GOOSE. 

 PALLAS'S GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER [No. 132]. A 



Siberian species named in honour of Pallas. 

 PALLAS'S SAND-GROUSE [No. 350]. Called after the explorer 

 and naturalist Pallas. Sand Grouse is first found in Latham 

 (1783) being a rendering of Pallas's name Tetrao arenarius. 

 An irregular migrant from South-east Europe and Central 

 Asia, the first great immigration of which to the British 

 Islands took place in 1863, since when it has frequently 

 visited us. 



PALLAS'S WARBLER [No. 128]. A Siberian species of 

 Willow-Warbler, named in honour of Pallas, who first 

 described it in 1827. 



PALORES. A Cornish name for the CHOUGH. 

 PANDLE WHEW : The WIGEON. (Norfolk.) Whew is from 

 its whistling note and pandle seems to mean a shrimp 

 (Swainson). It occurs in Bewick as " Pandled Whew." 

 PARASITIC GULL : The LONG-TAILED SKUA. (Gould.) 

 PARKERS. A Fen name for the smaller kinds of wild-ducks. 

 PARROT or SEA PARROT : The PUFFIN. (Yorkshire.) From 



its bill being supposed to resemble a parrot's. 

 PARROT-CROSSBILL [No. 35]. So called from the bill being 

 stouter and more parrot-like than that of the common form. 

 It is first noticed by Pennant (" Br. Zool.," ed. 1776) and 

 the name is found in Selby (1825). 



PARSON GULL or PARSON MEW : The GREAT BLACK-BACKED 

 GULL. (Cheshire, Sussex, Galway.) From the contrast 

 of its black coat and white under-plumage. 

 PARTRICK, PARTRIG : The COMMON PARTRIDGE. (Yorkshire.) 

 An equivalent. 



