GLOSSARY 



3H 



Goldfinch : the Pled Flycatcher 



Colk : the King Duck 



Colin : a name in New Spain for 

 Quail 



Compressed : flattened vertically 



Coot-foot : the Phalarope 



Copperfinch : the Chaffinch 



Corbie : the Raven 



Corndrake : the Land-Rail 



Cornish Crow, or Daw : the 

 Chough 



Gannet : the Skua 



Cornwall Kae : the Chough 



Coulterneb : the Puffin 



Crake, Little 



Spotted 



Crank bird : the Lesser Spotted 

 Woodpecker 



Craw : part of the stomach in 

 birds 



Cream-coloured Plover : Swift- 

 foot or Courser 



Courser Gull : the Glaucous Gull 



Creeper, Creep-tree, or Tree- 

 creeper. These names are in 

 some places given to the Nut- 

 hatch 



Crested Cormorant : the Shag 

 ,, Heron, Common or Grey 



Cricket-bird : the Grasshopper 

 Warbler 



Cricket Teal : the Garganey 



Crooked Bill : the Avocet 



Crossbill : Common 



Cuckoo's Leader or Mate : the 

 Wryneck 



Culmen : the ridge of the upper 

 mandible 



Cultrate : in the form of a bill- 

 hook or pruning knife 



Curlew- Jack : the Whimbrel 



Curwillet : the Sanderling 



Cushat : the Ring Dove 



Cutty Wren : the Common Wren 



Cygnet : the young Swan 



Daker Hen : the Land -Rail 



Danish Crow : the Hooded Crow 



Darr, Blue : the Black Tern 



Dertrum 



Depressed : flattened horizontally 



Deviling : the Swift 



Dick Dunnock : the Hedge Spar- 

 row 



Dippearl : the Tern 



Dirty Allen : the Skua 



Dishwater : the Wagtail 



Diving Pigeon : the Guillemot 



Dobbler and Dobchick : the 

 Lesser Grebe 



Door Hawk and Dorr Hawk : the 

 Nightjar. 



Dorbie : the Dunlin 



Doucker : a popular name for a 

 Grebe or Diver 



Doveky : the Black Guillemot 



Dove-coloured Falcon : the Pere- 

 grine Falcon 



Draine : the Missel Thrush 



Duck Hawk : the Marsh Harrier 



Ducker : a popular name for a 

 Grebe or Diver 



Dulwilly : the Ring Plover 



Dunkir and Dunair : the Pochard 



Dun Crow : the Hooded Crow 



Dundiver : the female and young 

 of the Merganser 



Dung Hunter : the Skua 



Dunlin 



Dunnock : the Hedge Sparrow 



Earl Duck : the Red-breasted 

 Merganser 



Easterling : the Smew 



Ebb : the Bunting 



Ecorcheur : the Shrike 



Egret : a tuft of long narrow 

 feathers found on the lower part 

 of the neck of the Herons. The 

 name is also sometimes ex- 

 tended to the two tufts of fea- 

 thers, resembling ears or horns, 

 in some of the Owls 



