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TAWNY BUNTING : The SNOW-BUNTING. (Young males or 



females in winter-plumage.) Described as a separate 



species by the older writers from Pennant to Montagu. 

 TAWNY OWL [No. 229]. So called from its reddish-brown, 



or tawny colour. The name first occurs in Pennant (1766). 



Willughby and Ray call it the "Common Brown, or 



Ivy Owl." 

 TAWNY PIPIT [No. 66]. So called from its bumsh-brown, 



or tawny, plumage. 

 TEAL [No. 289]. Occurs in Merrett, and in Willughby and 



Ray. Turner (1544) has "Tele" and Barlow (1655) 



" Teale." 

 TEAL-DRAKE : The SCAUP-DUCK is so called by gunners in 



the North. (Hawker.) 

 TEARY-EERIE. Bolam gives this as a Northumbrian name for 



the CORN-BUNTING; but is uncertain whether it is 



derived from its song, or is a corruption of " weary-weary " 



in allusion to its heavy flight. 

 TEASER : The ARCTIC SKUA. (Provincial.) From its habit 



of harassing the Gulls and Terns until they disgorge their 



prey. 

 TEETAN or TEETING : The MEADOW-PIPIT. (Orkneys and 



Shetlands.) Also the ROCK-PIPIT (Shetlands). 

 TEETICK or TEETUCK : The ROCK-PIPIT. (Orkneys and Shet- 

 land.) 



TEEUCK : The LAPWING. (Provincial.) From its cry. 

 TEE-WHAAP. A name for the LAPWING. (Hett.) 

 TELL-PIE, TELL-PIET, TELL-PIENOT : The MAGPIE (N. Yorks.). 



TEMMINCK'S STINT [No. 377]. The name occurs as Tem- 

 minck's Tringa in Selby and Temminck's Stint in Jenyns ; 

 as Temminck's Sandpiper in Eyton. The species was named 

 by Leisler in 1812 in honour of the celebrated ornithologist 

 Temminck. 



TENGMALM'S OWL [No. 2211. The name appears in Jenyns 

 (1825). This little species was named by Gmelin in honour 

 of Tengmalm. hence its English name. 



TERCEL : The male GOSHAWK. See Tiercel. 



TERMAGANT, or TERMIGANT. An old English spelling of the 

 name PTARMIGAN. Newton has shown that the former 

 spelling was used by Taylor (the " water " poet) in 1630, 

 and the latter by James I in 1617. 



