264 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



YARN or YERN : The COMMON HERON. (Cheshire.) Prob- 

 ably a corruption of heron. 



YARRELL. The adult male RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 

 (Northumberland. ) 



YARWHELP, YARDKEEP, or YARWIP : The BAR-TAILED 

 GOD WIT. From its cry. Occurs in Willughby. Yarwhelp 

 is also a Norfolk name for the AVOCET ; and is apparently 

 applied to denote a point of resemblance to the true 

 Yarwhelp. 



YAUP or WHAUP : The AVOCET. (Norfolk). A term equiva- 

 lent to Curlew. Swainson also gives it as a Renfrew name, 

 for the BLUE TITMOUSE. 



YDFRAN. The Welsh name for the ROOK ; lit. " corn-crow." 

 YELDRIN : The YELLOW BUNTING in some parts of Scotland. 



YELDROCK: The YELLOW BUNTING. (Northumberland, 

 Yorks.) 



YELLOW AMMER : The YELLOW BUNTING. (Provincial.) 

 Also Yellow amber or Yellow omber (Salop). Ammer 

 seems to be cognate with Germ. Ammer, a Bunting. Swain- 

 son thinks it is from A.Sax. Amore, a small bird, the prefix 

 " Yellow " referring to the general yellow tint of the 

 plumage. He gives Yellow Amber or Yellow Omber as a 

 Shropshire name. 



YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO [No. 216 American Yellow-billed 

 Cuckoo]. Occurs in Yarrell (1st ed.) as Yellow-billed 

 American Cuckoo. This is a North American species 

 recorded as a straggler to the British Islands. 



YELLOW-BREASTED BUNTING [No. 46]. A Siberian 

 species having the breast bright yellow, with a chestnut 

 band. 



YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER [No. 127]. A Siberian 

 species of Willow Warbler, so called from its pronounced 

 yellowish-white superciliary stripe. It is the Dalmatian 

 Regulus of Gould and Yarrell. 



YELLOW BUNTING [No. 43]. Usually known as the Yellow- 

 hammer. The name occurs in Merrett and Willughby as 

 "Yellow-hammer:" Turner (1544) has " Yelow ham." 

 Pennant (1766) calls it Yellow hammer, but in the later 

 editions it appears as Yellow Bunting, as also in the works 

 of most of his successors, Yellow hammer being specified by 

 Montagu as a provincial name. Yarrell (1st ed.) renders it 

 " Yellow Bunting or Yellow Ammer." 



