180 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



PIED CHAFFINCH : The SNOW-BUNTING. (Albin.) 

 PIED CROW : The HOODED CROW. (Provincial.) 

 PIED CURRE. An old gunner's name for the GOLDENEYE 

 in parts of the South and West of England. 



PIED DIVER : The SMEW. (Provincial.) 



PIED FINCH, PITEFINCH, or PYDIE : The CHAFFINCH. 

 (Cheshire.) From the pied plumage of the male. Other 

 variants in the Midlands are Pea Finch and Pine Finch. 



PIED FLYCATCHER [No. 116]. Appears to be found first 

 in the 4th ed. of Pennant. In the folio edition it is called 

 Goldfinch, as in Willughby and Edwards. 



PIED MOUNTAIN FINCH : The SNOW-BUNTING. Occurs in 

 Willughby and in Albin. 



PIED OYSTER-CATCHER : The OYSTERCATCHER. So called 

 by Pennant, Montagu and other old writers. 



PIED WAGTAIL [No. 81]. It is described by Turner (1544) 

 under the heading of Culicilega of Aristotle, and he gives it 

 the name of " Wagtale " merely. It occurs in most old 

 authors as White Wagtail, Pied Wagtail first appearing in 

 Bewick (1797) although its distinctness from the White 

 Wagtail of the Continent was not pointed out by Gould 

 until 1832. In Gaelic its name, according to Gray, is 

 Breac-an-t'-sil, signifying a plaid, from the resemblance 

 of its plumage to that article. In Cornwall, where it is 

 known as the " tinner," one perching on a window-sill is 

 said to be a sign of a visit from a stranger. Bolam gives 

 it as a Border belief that the bird ought always to wag its 

 tail nine times on alighting, and before beginning to run 

 about or feed ; should the number be less or more, it is very 

 unlucky for the person who is counting. 



PIED WHEATEAR [No. 1721. This Asiatic and South-east 

 European species was first recorded for the British Islands 

 in the " Annals of Scottish Natural Hist.," 1910, p. 2. 



PIED WIGEON. A provincial name for the GARGANEY and the 

 GOLDENEYE. (Montagu.) 



PIED WOODPECKER : The GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 

 (Bewick.) 



PIE-FINCH : The CHAFFINCH (Upton-on-Severn) ; the HAW- 

 FINCH (Notts.). 



PIE-NANNY: The MAGPIE. (Yorkshire.) 



PIENET : The OYSTERCATCHER. (Provincially.) A diminu- 

 tive of " Pie." Also the MAGPIE (see Planet). 



