GLOSSARY 



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Moor Hen, or Water Hen 



Morrot : the Guillemot 



Moss-cheeper : the Meadow Pipit 



Mother Carey's Chickens : the 

 Petrels 



Mountain Linnet : the Twite 



Ouzel : the Ring Ouzel 



Mouse Hawk or Owl : the Hawk 

 Owl 



Mow : a Gull 



Mud-plover : the Grey Plover 



Muggy : the Whitethroat 



Mullet : the Puffin 



Mumruffin : the Long-tailed Tit 



Murdering-bird : the Butcher- 

 bird 



Nape : the upper part of the neck 



behind 

 Neck-a-pecker and Nickle : the 



Woodpecker 

 Night-crow, or Night-hawk : the 

 Nightjar 



„ Heron 

 Nope : the Bullfinch 

 Norfolk Plover : the Great Plover 

 Norie : the Cormorant 

 Northern Crow : the Hooded Crow 

 Norway Lark : the Snow Bunting 

 Nun : the Blue Tit 



Oke : the Auk 



Olive : the Oyster-catcher 



Olive-tufted Duck : the Golden- 

 eye 



Operculum : a lid or covering 



Orbit : the skin that surrounds 

 the eye, and in some birds is 

 destitute of feathers 



Ouzel, Water, or Dipper 



Oven-bird : the Chiff-Chaff, Wil- 

 low Warbler, and Wood Warbler 



Owl, Long-eared or Horned 

 „ Short-eared or Little-horned 

 „ Tawny or Brown 



Padge and Padge Owl : the Barn 



Owl 

 Palmipedes : Web-footed Birds 

 Pandle-whew : the Wigeon 

 Parasitic Gull : the Skua 

 Parrot, Ailsa : the Puffin 

 Sea : the Puffin 

 Parson Mew : the Black-backed 



Gull 

 Passerine : belonging to the order 

 Passeres 

 ,, Warbler : the Garden 

 Warbler 

 Pea-finch : the Chaffinch 

 Pearl : the Tern 

 Pease Crow : the Tern 

 Peck : the Bar-tailed Godwit 

 Pectinated : cut like a comb 

 Peese-weep : the Peewit, also 

 sometimes given to the Green- 

 finch 

 Peggy : the Wren, Whitethroat 



and the Garden Warbler 

 Peggy cut-throat : the White- 

 throat 

 Petrel : the name Petrel is in 

 some places given to the God- 

 wit 

 Pettychaps, Greater : the Garden 

 Warbler 

 „ Lesser : the Chiff-chaff 

 Philomel : the Nightingale 

 Pianet : the Magpie, and Oyster- 

 catcher 

 Picarini : the Avocet 

 Pick-cheese : the Tom-Tit and 



Great Tit 

 Pickmire : the Black-headed Gull 

 Picktarney and Picket : the Tern 

 Pictarn : the Black-headed Gull 

 Pie, Sea : the Oyster-catcher 

 Pied Diver : the Smew 

 ,, Wagtail 



„ Wigeon : the Garganey, and 

 Goldeye 

 Pie-finch : the Chaffinch 

 Pienet and Piet : the Magpie 



