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name, however, for this bird is Pwffingen, but whether 

 derived from the English name or whether it is the origin 

 of the English name needs investigation. It occurs in 

 Kay, or Caius (1570), as the " Puphin or Pupin," and he 

 accounts for the name by remarking that " this bird our 

 people call the Puphin, we say Pupin from its ordinary 

 cry of ' pupin.' ' Albin, Edwards, Pennant and later 

 writers call it the Puffin, which spelling is found in 

 Willughby (1678), but that the name was not a general 

 one in the latter writer's day is shown by his referring to it 

 as " the bird called Coulterneb at the Earn Islands ; Puffin 

 in North Wales ; in South Wales Gulden-head, Bottle-nose 

 and Helegug ; at Scarburgh, Mullet ; in Cornwall, Pope ; 

 at Jersey and Guernsey, Barbalot." Swainson gives Puffin 

 as an Antrim name for the RAZORBILL. 



PUFFINET. Albin gives it as a Earn Island name for the 

 BLACK GUILLEMOT. 



PUFFIN OF THE ISLE OF MAN : The MANX SHEARWATER. 

 (Willughby.) 



PUFFIN OF THE ISLE OF WIGHT : The PUFFIN. (Edwards.) 



PUGGY or JUGGY WREN : The WREN. (West Surrey.) 



PUIT : The BLACK-HEADED GULL. (Norfolk.) Found in 

 King's "Vale Royall " (1656). From its note (see Pewit 

 Gull). Also the LAPWING (East and South coasts), 

 being a corruption of " Pewit." 



PUMP-BORER: The LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 

 (Shropshire.) " Because the noise it makes is like that 

 produced by boring with an augur through hard wood " 

 (Swainson). 



PUPHIN or PUPIN : The PUFFIN. (Caius.) 



Purple Gallinule. Examples of this exotic species obtained in 

 our islands are usually regarded as escaped birds. 



PURPLE HERON [No. 261]. The name is found in Jenyns 

 (1835) and succeeding authors, and is derived from 

 Linnseus's name for the species (Ardea purpurea). Latham, 

 Lewin, Walcott, Montagu and other old writers call it the 

 " African Heron." It is the Purple-crested Heron of 

 Bewick and the Crested Purple Heron of Selby. 



PURPLE SANDPIPER [No. 385]. The name is derived from 

 the purplish gloss on the upper-parts, and is first found in 

 Montagu (1802). It is the Selninger Sandpiper of Latham 

 and Pennant, and the Purple or Rock Tringa of Selby. 



PURRE. An old name for the DUNLIN in winter-plumage 

 (Norfolk, Yorkshire.) Occurs in Willughby. 



