186 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



PURRE MAW : The ROSEATE TERN. (Carrickfergus.) From 

 its hoarse cry. Maw is an equivalent of Gull. 



PUTTOCK: The KITE and also the COMMON BUZZARD 

 Turner and Merrett apply it to the former, while Willughby 

 applies it to the latter bird, to which also it was until 

 recently applied in Essex, where half a century ago it was 

 not such a rara avis in that county as the Kite. Montagu 

 also gives it as a provincial name of the Common 

 Buzzard, but Bewick, who spells it Puttok, applies it 

 to the Kite. It appears also to have been sometimes 

 applied to the MARSH-HARRIER. It is a contraction 

 of " poot-hawk," lit. " pullet-hawk," poot signifying poult 

 or pullet. Also sometimes spelt " Puddock." 



PWFFIN. A Welsh name for the PUFFIN, of which it is, perhaps, 

 the original. 



PWFFIN MANAW or PWFFINGEN FANAW. Welsh names for the 



MANX SHEARWATER ; lit. " Manx Puffin." 

 PYGMY CURLEW. See " Pigmy Curlew." 



PYSG ERYR. A Welsh name for the OSPREY, signifying 

 " Fish eagle." 



PYSGOTWR : The KINGFISHER. (North Wales) lit. "fisher." 

 QUAIL [No. 468]. From O.Fr. Quaille (Mod. Fr. Caille). The 

 name occurs in Turner (1544) as " Quale : " Merrett and 

 Willughby have Quail. As instancing the immense migra- 

 tions of former times it may be related that Pliny credits 

 them with being a danger to sailors, as he says they often 

 settle on the sails, and that always at night, and so sink 

 ships. 

 QTJAILZIE. An old Scots name for the QUAIL. 



QUAKETAIL. A name invented by Macgillivray for the group 

 of " yellow " wagtails (Budytes), as distinguished from the 

 PIED WAGTAIL and its congeners which he called 

 " wagtails." 



QUEEST, QUEST, QUIST, QUISTY. Provincial names for the 

 RING-DOVE. Occurs in Merrett (1667) as " Quist " and 

 in Montagu as " Quest." It is also found corrupted to 

 Quice, Queeze, or Quease. From Lat. qucstus. (See also 

 Wood Quest.) 



QUEET. A name for the COOT. (Swainson.) 

 QUEEZE : The RING-DOVE. (Cheshire.) (See Queest.) 

 QTJET : The COMMON GUILLEMOT. (Aberdeen.) 

 QUHAIP. An old Scots form of " Whaup " (CURLEW). 



