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Buiack Cock or Brack GAME: The BLACK GROUSE. The 
name Black Cock occurs in Sibbald (1684). 
Buiack CoRMoRANT: The CORMORANT. 
Brack Crow: The CARRION-CROW. (Notts.) 
Brack CurRLEW: The GLOSSY IBIS. 
Buiack Curre. A Hampshire name for the TUFTED DUCK. 
Buack Diver: The COMMON SCOTER (Willughby) ; also the 
VELVET SCOTER (Northumberland), and sometimes the 
CORMORANT. 
Buack Duck: The TUFTED DUCK, COMMON SCOTER, 
VELVET SCOTER, and also the SCAUP-DUCK. It is 
used for the COMMON SCOTER in Northumberland, 
Yorkshire and Cheshire. 
Buack EacteE: The GOLDEN EAGLE (immature). A fairly 
general name, derived from its dark plumage. In the High- 
lands the Gaelic name, Jolair dhubh also signifies Black 
Eagle. Albin’s and Pennant’s Black Eagle is the same as 
the Ring-tailed Eagle, for long known to be the immature 
GOLDEN EAGLE. 
BLACK-EARED WHEATEAR [No. 170, Western Black- 
eared Wheatear; No. 171, JEastern  Black-eared 
Wheatear]. This is the Black-throated Wheatear of former 
authors, the Black-eared and Black-throated Wheatears 
being now considered dimorphisms of the same species. 
BLack-FACED BERNICLE-GoosE. Macgillivray’s name for the 
BRENT GOOSE. 
BuLaAcK-FOOTED KirtiwAKE: The KITTIWAKE GULL. (Mac- 
gillivray.) 
Buack Game: The BLACK GROUSE. Occurs in Willughby. 
Biack Goos—E: The BRENT GOOSE. (Essex.) It is also a 
North Country gunner’s name for the same species. 
BLack GREBE: The BLACK-NECKED GREBE. 
BLACK GROUSE [No. 463]. Occurs first in Willughby (1678), 
who calls this species the “‘ Heathcock or Black-game or 
Grous,” the first-mentioned name being that of the female, 
which occurs first in Merrett’s list (1667) as “‘ Hasel Hen ”’ ; 
Sibbald calls it Black Cock. It is variously called Black 
Cock, Black Game or Black Grous by later writers, with 
Heath Cock, Heath Hen or Hazel Hen for the female. The 
spelling ‘“ Grous” in fact survived to 1835 (Jenyns), but 
one or two writers and finally Yarrell (1st ed., 1843) adopted 
the final “‘e”’ now invariably used. The word Grouse is 
of uncertain origin; it first occurs as “Grows” in an 
