on DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
BriaRk Bunting: The CORN-BUNTING. (North Ireland.) 
Brip or Bryp. The original form of Bird in Mid.-Eng. and 
A.Sax., being derived from A.Sax. bredan, to breed. The © 
term was properly applicable to the young only, and seems 
synonymous with brood, A.Sax. brod, the proper term for 
the adult bird being fowl, A.Sax. jfugol, which has in 
recent times come to be applied more especially to the 
barn-door varieties of gallinaceous birds. Shakespeare 
(Henry IV, act v, sc. 1.) has “that ungentle gull the 
cuckoo’s bird (i.e. young).” Chaucer has “take any brid 
and put it in a cage,” etc., also the plural form briddes. 
In the corrupted Northern English it appears to have become 
early changed to bird by the shifting of the “r,” although 
it survived for a time as brid or bryd in the Wessex, or 
Southern English, tongue, which was less subject to cor- 
rupting influences. According to Poole brid still survives 
in Staffordshire 
BrRIDLED GUILLEMOT. A supposed variety of the COMMON 
GUILLEMOT ; also known as the Ringed Guillemot. 
Briptep Marror. A local name for the Ringed Guillemot 
among the fishermen in the West of Scotland (Gray). 
BripLE Duck: The SCAUP-DUCK. (Dublin.) 
BRIECAN BEATHA. A Gaelic name for the CHAFFINCH. 
BrinKER: The RING-OUZEL. 
Brisk Frncou, BrRisktz, or BricuTreE: The CHAFFINCH. 
(Scotland.) From its smartness of appearance and activity. 
BritH y FucHES. A South Wales name for the PIED WAG- 
TAIL; lit. ‘pied bird of the cowshed.”’ 
BrRITH Y FUCHES FELEN. A Welsh name for the YELLOW 
WAGTAIL; felen signifies “ yellow.” 
BriTH Y FUCHES Lwyp. A Welsh name for the GREY WAG- 
TAIL; lwyd signifies “ grey.” 
BritisH Coat-Trrmousse. See COAL-TITMOUSE. 
BrrtisH Dierper. See DIPPER. 
BritTIsH GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. See GOLDEN-CRESTED 
WREN. 
BRITISH GREAT SporreED WooDPECKER. See GREAT SPOTTED 
WOODPECKER. 
British GREAT TirmousE. See GREAT TITMOUSE. 
British Hepce Sparrow. See HEDGE-SPARROW. 
BririsH Lona-taitep Trrmouse. See LONG-TAILED TIT- 
MOUSE. 
