266 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



YELLOW WILLOW WREN : The WOOD-WARBLER. (Bewick.) 



It is also found in White's Selborne as Yellowish Willow- 

 Wren. 

 YELLOW WREN : The WILLOW- WARBLER. So called from 



the prevailing tint of its plumage by many old authors. 



The name is also applied to the WOOD-WARBLER. 

 YELLOW YALE or YITE, YELLOW YELDRIN, YELLOW YOWLEY : 



The YELLOW BUNTING is so called in some parts of 



Scotland. Yellow Yowley is also a Yorks. name. 

 YELLOW YOWLING, YELLOW YITE, YORLIN, YIRLIN, YELDROCK, 



or YELDRIN. Northumberland names for the YELLOW 



BUNTING. 

 YELER : The AVOCET. From its cry. Montagu gives it as 



a provincial name. 



YEORLING : The YELLOW BUNTING. (Berwick.) 

 YOKEL or YUKEL: The GREEN WOODPECKER. (Provincial.) 

 YOULRING or YOWLRYNG : The YELLOW BUNTING. Turner 



(1544) has " Yowlrying," while Sibbald (1684) calls it 



"Yellow Youlring." Yellow Yoldring or Yoldring is a 



Yorkshire name. 

 YSGRAELL, YSGRECHEN. Welsh names for the COMMON TERN. 



The first signifies "rattle" and the second "screamer," 



from its harsh cry. 

 YSGUTHAN. A Welsh name for the RING-DOVE ; lit. " cooing 



bird." Also applied to the STOCK-DOVE and ROCK- 

 DOVE. 

 YSNITEN. A Welsh name for the COMMON SNIPE; lit. 



"snipe." 

 YSWIDW LAS FACH : The BLUE TITMOUSE. (North Wales) lit, 



"little blue tit." 

 YSWIDW LLWYD FACH: The MARSH-TITMOUSE. (North 



Wales) ; lit. "little grey tit." 

 YSWIDW'R COED : The GREAT TITMOUSE. (North Wales) 



lit. " wood titmouse." 

 YUCKEL or YOCKEL: The GREEN WOODPECKER. The 



former is a Wiltshire and the latter a Shropshire name. 

 ZETHAR. A Cornish name for the " Sea Mew or Gull." 



(Harting.) Perhaps the COMMON GULL. 



FINIS. 



