26 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
of Brisson’s Hchasse (1760), although according to Wilson 
used long before in America. I may point out, though, 
that in Bewick’s ‘“ Brit. Birds” (1st ed., vol. 1, p. 5, 1804) 
will be found a cut of a sportsman walking in the water on 
stilts, placed as a tail-piece to the account of the “ Long- 
legged Plover,” which suggests both the bird’s present 
name and its habits. 
BLACK-WINGED STILT-SHANK. Macgillivray’s name for the 
BLACK-WINGED STILT. 
Black Woodpecker. This fine North European and Asiatic 
species has frequently been recorded as British, but no 
really authentic British examples are known and it is 
therefore yet denied a place on the British List. 
Brack Wren: The HEDGE-SPARROW. Swainson says it 
is an Irish name for the species, on account of the dusky 
plumage. 
Bracky-top : The STONECHAT. (Provincial.) 
BLAKELING: The YELLOW BUNTING. (Northumberland 
and Yorkshire.) 
BieateR: The COMMON SNIPE. From the peculiar noise 
it makes during its love-flight. Also occurs as “* Blutter.” 
BLETHERING TAM: The WHITETHROAT. (Renfrew.) 
Buryp DorBir: The PURPLE SANDPIPER. (North Shet- 
land.) 
Biurxyp Dunnock: The HEDGE-SPARROW. — (Somerset.) 
Smith says it is from its stupid blindness in not distin- 
guishing the Cuckoo’s egg laid in its nest. 
Bioop Hawk: The KESTREL. (Oxon.) 
Bioop Hoop, BLoop Or, or BLoop Utr: The BULLFINCH 
(see Alp). The term “blood” is from the salmon-red 
tint of the under-parts. 
Bioop Lark: The YELLOW BUNTING. (Provincial.) Also 
the TREE-PIPIT., (Cheshire.) 
Bioop Linnet: The LINNET. (Norfolk.) From the crimson 
of its breast in breeding-plumage. 
BLUE-BACK, BLUE-BIRD, BLUE FELT, BLUE Rump, or BLUE- 
TAIL. The FIELDFARE is so called in various localities 
from the blue-grey tint of the lower-back. Blue-tail is 
noted as used in the Midlands and West Yorkshire, and is 
a misnomer, as the tail is dark brown; Blue-Back is a 
Cheshire name. 
BLUE-BACKED Crow : The HOODED CROW. (Thirsk, Yorks.) 
