PROVINCIAL NAMES OF BRITISH ANIMALS. 289 
Golden Plover. Whistling Plover. 
Lapwing.  Pee-weep; Horn-pie* 
(Forby). 
Ring Dotterel. Stone-runner; Dot- 
plover. 
Turnstone. Tangle-pecker. 
“Tangle” is used on the Norfolk 
coast as the name of the broad 
dark sea-weed beset with small 
bladders. 
Oystereatcher. Sea-pie; Dickie-bird. 
Heron. Harn or Hern; Harnsey ; 
Frank. 
The last name from the note. 
Common Bittern. Bitour (Sir T. 
Browne); Bottle-bump (Forby). 
Spoonbill. Shovelard (Sir T. Browne). 
An ancient and now obsolete name, 
another form of which was 
“ Shullard.” 
Avocet. Shoeing-horn(Sir'l’. Browne). 
Whimbrel. May-bird ; Half-bird ; 
Half-curlew ; Spowe. 
The first name probably from the 
season of the bird’s arrival; the 
last a name applied to it in 
the Household Accounts of the 
L’Estranges of Hunstanton in 
the sixteenth century, but now 
obsolete. 
Bartailed Godwit. Pick. 
Black-tailed Godwit. Shrieker (Lub- 
bock). 
Green Sandpiper. Summer Snipe; 
Martin Snipe (Lubbock). 
Knot. Gnat or Knat; Knet. 
Whooper Wild Swan. Elk (Sir T. 
Browne). 
Brent Goose. Brant. 
Sheldrake. Bargander (Sir T. 
Browne); Bay Duck (Forby); 
Rurrow Duck. 
Shoveller. Spoonbeak or Spoonbill ; 
Beck (Lubbock); Popeler. 
The last an ancient name aittri- 
buted to this duck, but now 
obsolete. : 
Pintail. Sea Pheasant. 
Wigeon. Smee. 
Garganey. Summer Teal. 
Pochard. Poker; Dun bird. 
Scaup. Grey-back. 
Tufted Duck. Black Poker (Lub- 
bock). 
Golden-eye. Rattle-wing. 
Scoter. Black Duck; Sea Duck. 
Long-tailed Duck. Mealy-bird. 
Red-throated Diver. Sprat-loon ; 
Mag-loon (i. e. Magpie-loon). 
Great Crested Grebe. Loon. 
Little Grebe. Dabchick ; Didapper ; 
Dive-an-dop ; Divy-duck. 
Puffin. ~Parrot-bill; Sea Parrot. 
Foolish Guillemot. Willock ; Willy. 
Gannet. Herring Gant. 
Common Tern. Great Pearl. 
Lesser Tern. Smal! Pearl; Dip-ears. 
Brown-headed Gull. Scoulton Pie ; 
Scoulton Peewit; Peewit Gull. 
Kittiwake Gull. Sea Kitty. 
Great Black-backed Gull. 
back. 
Gulls generally, especially the larger 
sorts. Cob. 
Gulls generally, 
smaller sorts. 
Saddle- 
especially the 
Mow ; Sea-mow. 
Many of these names have come under my personal observation, 
whilst others have been recorded and communicated to me by my 
friend Mr. F. Norgate and my son, Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun. 
To 
these I have added some names taken from Sir T. Browne’s notes 
on Norfolk Birds (temp. Charles IJ.); from Lubbock’s ‘Fauna of 
Norfolk’; from Forby’s ‘ Vocabulary of East Anglia’; and from 
a few other published sources, including a paper by the Rev. H. T. 
Frere, which will be found in the first series of ‘ The Zoologist,’ 
p- 2186.—J. H. Gurney (Northrepps Hall, near Cromer). 
* Apparently meaning a pied bird with a crest like a horn, 
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