20 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
this species figures very little In English folk-lore. Mr. 
Thiselton Dyer (‘‘ English Folklore ’’) in fact finds nothing 
to say about it, and Swainson hardly anything. The 
allusion in both Aristotle and Pliny to this bird changing 
with the season from black to rufous, is evidently based on 
a misapprehension as to the sexes, the rufous-brown plumage 
being that of the female. It is a popular belief that when 
these birds are unusually shrill, or sing much in the morning, 
rain will follow. Swainson also gives this as an Irish belief, 
while in Meath it is said that “when the Blackbird sings 
before Christmas she will cry before Candlemas.”’ 
BLACK-BONNET: The REED-BUNTING. (Scotland.) So called 
from its conspicuous black head. The name seems also to 
have been applied to the BLACKCAP. 
BLACK-BREASTED Plover: The GOLDEN PLOVER. (Ireland.) 
BLACK-BREASTED ReEpstTaRT: The BLACK REDSTART. 
(Macgillivray.) 
BLACK-BREASTED SANDPIPER: The DUNLIN. (Macgillivray.) 
Buack Brent Goose. See BRENT GOOSE. 
BLACK-BROWED ALBATROSS [No. 335]. An inhabitant of 
the Southern Seas, which has once been obtained in Cam- 
bridgeshire (in 1897). The name albatros (according to the 
English Cyclopedia) is “a word apparently corrupted by 
Dampier from the Portuguese alcatraz, which was applied 
by the early navigators of that nation to Cormorants and 
other sea-birds.” 
BLACKCAP [No. 146]. More often called the Blackcap 
Warbler. Occurs in Willughby (1678). The name is also 
applied to many other species which have the cap or 
summit of the head black, i.e. the COAL-TITMOUSH, 
MARSH-TITMOUSE, GREAT TITMOUSE, REED- 
BUNTING, STONECHAT, BULLFINCH and BLACK- 
HEADED GULL. The present species is the “ Atricapilla 
seu Ficedula ”’ of Aldrovandus. 
BLACK-CAPPED Bitty: The GREAT TITMOUSE. (West 
Riding, Yorks.) 
BLacK-cAPPpeD Lotity. A North Country name for the GREAT 
TITMOUSE. 
BLACK-CAPPED T1tMousE: The MARSH-TITMOUSE. (Bewick.) 
BLACK-CAPPED WARBLER: The BLACKCAP. (Macgillivray.) 
BLACK-CHINNED GREBE: The LITTLE GREBE. Found in 
Pennant, Latham, Montagu, etc., as a supposed distinct 
species from the Hebrides. It is also a Berkshire name for 
the species. 
