240 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



TOMTIT. A general provincial name for the BLUE TITMOUSE. 

 Swainson also gives it as a Norfolk and Craven name for 

 the WREN, and an Irish name for the TREECREEPER. 

 TONGUE BIRD or LONG TONGUE: The WRYNECK. (Pro- 

 vincial.) From its long projectile tongue. 



TONY HOOP: The BULLFINCH. (Somersetshire.) Probably 

 from its whistling note, but Swainson thinks it is from the 

 tawny breast of the female. 

 TOOK : The REDSHANK. From its note. 

 TOPE : The WREN. (Cornwall.) 

 TOR OUZEL : The RING-OUZEL. (Devonshire.) 

 TORTOISE-SHELL GOOSE: The WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. 

 (Ireland.) From the mottled markings on the abdomen 

 (Swainson.) 



TOT-O'ER-SEAS. Newton gives this as a local East Coast name 



for the GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN, in allusion to its 



arrival from overseas on the autumnal migration. It 



seems to be a Suffolk and perhaps a Norfolk name. 



TOUNAG. A Gaelic name for the MALLARD. (Western Isles.) 



From toun, a wave. 

 TOWILLY or TOWWILLY: The SANDERLING. (Cornwall.) 



From its cry. Occurs as Towiller in Borlase. 

 TRANILLYS : The RING-PLOVER. (Hett.) 

 TREE-CLIMBER: The TREECREEPER. (Provincial.) Tree- 

 clipper is an Oxfordshire name. 



TREECREEPER [No. 83, British Treecreeper; No. 84, 

 Northern Treecreeper]. Occurs in most of our 

 older authors as "Common Creeper." It is the Certhia of 

 Willughby and Ray. Pennant (1766) calls it " Creeper " 

 simply. Ridgway has separated the resident British 

 form from the North European form, examples of which 

 have been identified in Scotland. 

 TREE FALCON : The HOBBY. (Willughby.) 

 TREE FINCH : The TREE-SPARROW. (Hett.) 

 TREE GOOSE : The BARNACLE -GOOSE. (Bewick.) In refer- 

 ence to the old legend. (See BARNACLE-GOOSE.) 

 TREE HUCK-MUCK : The LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. (Hett.) 

 TREE LARK : The TREE-PIPIT. (Notts, Yorks.) 

 TREE MAGPIE. A supposed variety of the MAGPIE. 

 TREE-PIPIT [No. 67]. The name occurs in Selby (1825) and 

 arises from its more arboreal habits than the MEADOW- 

 PIPIT. It is the " Pipit Lark " of Pennant, and the 

 " Field Lark " of Montagu. 



