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Lapwing. Tee-wheet. 
I have also heard this bird named 
the Shochan by shepherds and 
keepers who were natives of, or 
had resided in, the Highlands. 
I believe it is the Gaelic name 
of the Lapwing. 
Oystercatcher. Sea-pyet. 
Common Heron. Craigie, and some- 
times Jenny Heron. 
Craig is an old Scotticism for 
throat, and probably the bird 
has been so named on account 
of its long neck. 
Bittern (nearly extinct in this county 
now). Bog-drum. 
Common Curlew. Whaup. 
In country houses when children 
have been whistling, I have 
heard their parents order them 
to “stop their whaupin.” 
Common Sandpiper. Kittineedie. 
Snipe. Heather-bleater. 
Dunlin. Purre. 
THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Landrail. Corn-crake. 
Waterhen. Stankie. 
In this district a still deep piece 
of water is called a stank. 
Coot. Bald Coot. 
Sheldrake. Stock-annet. 
Teal. Jay-teal. 
Cormorants. Cow’en Elders, and in 
Wigtonshire Mochrum Elders.* 
Tern. Sea Swallows. 
Black-headed Gull. In the eastern 
parishes of this county this bird 
is known as Collochan Gull, 
from the name of a loch where 
it breeds in some thousands. 
Common Gull. Sea Maw or Mar. 
Herring Gull. Cat-gull. 
These gulls are detested by the 
keepers, and have probably 
earned their name and cha- 
racter by their cat-like depre- 
dations amongst the newly- 
hatched young birds and eggs 
on the moors. 
—Rosert Service (Corberry Hill, Maxwelltown, N. B.). 
Yorkshire, West Riding—As supplementary to my list of 
provincial names used in this district (p. 331), I may add the 
following :— 
Mole. Mouldwarp. 
Rat. Ratton. 
Whinchat. Hay-chat. 
Stone-loach. Tommy-loach. 
Miller’s-thumb. Buill-head. 
Lizards and Newts. Askers. 
Tadpole. Bull-head. 
Ladybird. Cow-lady. 
Cockroach. Black-clock. 
Dragonfly. Horsetang. 
Doubtless a corruption of ‘‘ Horse- 
stinger,” from its supposed habit 
of stinging horses, 
Tortoiseshell and Red Admiral But- 
terflies. Scotch Nannies. 
Cranefly. Tom-spinner and Daddy 
Longlegs. 
—G. T. Porritt (Highroyd House, Huddersfield). 
* Colvend (pronounced Cow’en by the natives) is a coast parish much frequented 
by these birds, and Mochrum is a loch where one of their great breeding-places is 
situated. Perhaps their present appellation was bestowed on the Cormorants by 
our Presbyterian forefathers in the days when the Kirk Session held supreme sway 
in rural places, and might be one way in which the people showed their dislike to 
its somewhat inquisitorial functions. 
