234 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



whistle which the bird often utters, resembling the sound 



of the pipe used by the swineherds of old when collecting 



the animals under their charge." 

 SWING-DEVIL: The SWIFT. (Northumberland.) 

 Swiss SANDPIPER : The GREY PLOVER. Swainson says it 



was so called because Reaumur first received specimens 



from Switzerland. 



SYCOCK: The MISTLE-THRUSH. (Notts., Derbyshire.) 

 SYKES'S WAGTAIL [No. 75]. A West Siberian species first 



recorded for Britain by Butterfield in the "Zoologist" for 



1902, p. 232. 



SYWIDER. A Welsh name for the WILLOW- WARBLER. 



TABBERER, TAPPERER, or TAPPER : The LESSER SPOTTED 

 WOODPECKER. (Leicestershire.) 



TAEL DUIK (=Teal duck) : The TEAL. (Scotland.) 



TAGGYFINCH: The CHAFFINCH. (Upton-on-Severn.) 



TAME SWAN : The MUTE SWAN. 



TAMMIE HERL : The COMMON HERON. (Perth.) 



TAMMIE NORIE : The PUFFIN. (Orkney and Shetland.) 



TANGLE-PICKER: The TURNSTONE. (Norfolk.) Tangle is 

 a kind of seaweed. 



TANG SPARROW: The ROCK-PIPIT. (Shetlands.) "Tang" 

 signifies seaweed. 



TANG-WHAAP or TANG WHAUP : The WHIMBREL. (Orkney 

 and Shetland) lit. " seaweed curlew." 



TARAD-Y-KOED. A Cornish name for a WOODPECKER. 



TARMACHAN. The Gaelic name for the PTARMIGAN. 



TARROCK, TARRET, TARING : The COMMON TERN. (Shetlands.) 



TARROCK GULL or TARROCK. Properly the immature' KITTI- 

 WAKE GULL, but also applied to the young of the 

 COMMON GULL and also to the COMMON GUILLEMOT. 

 It occurs in Willughby for the first-named species. The 

 bird described under this name was formerly considered 

 a distinct species from the Kittiwake Gull. 



TARRY : The COMMON and ARCTIC TERNS. (Northumber- 

 land.) 



TARTAN-BACK. A name for the BRAMBLING. (Hett.) 



TASTER : The BLACK GUILLEMOT. (Sibbald.) See Tystie. 



TATLER: The COMMON SANDPIPER. 



TAWNY : The BULLFINCH. (Somerset.) 



