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BeargvDiE: The WHITETHROAT. (Provincial.) Probably 
from its habit of puffing out the throat-feathers. 
BearpManica: The BEARDED TITMOUSE. (Albin.) 
Beck. A local Norfolk name for the SHOVELER. 
Bee-Birp: The SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. (Norfolk and 
Yorkshire.) Also applied to the BLUE TITMOUSE 
(Hants.) and the WHITETHROAT (Devon.), the name being 
derived from their supposed fondness for bees. 
BEE-BITER: The GREAT TITMOUSE. (Provincial.) 
Bescu-Fincu : The CHAFFINCH. So called from its partiality 
to beech-mast. 
BrecH-OwL_: The TAWNY OWL. (Provincial.) From its 
supposed partiality for these trees. 
BEE-EATER [No. 205]. The name Bee-eater (implying its 
fondness for bees) was first used, according to Prof. Newton, 
in 1668 by Charleton (“‘ Onomasticon,”’ p. 87) as a translation 
of the Greek Merops. It also occurs in Willughby and most 
subsequent writers, although Macgillivray attempted to 
substitute ‘‘ Yellow throated Bee-eater.” The bird was long 
known as a common European species, but according to 
Montagu its first recorded occurrence in England was one 
shot from a flock in July, 1794, near Mattishall in Norfolk, 
and exhibited before the Linnean Society. 
Beer-EaTER. A local Northumberland name for the GREAT 
TITMOUSE, which is found sometimes to have a propensity 
for devouring bees. 
Beticoot, BELLKITE, or BeLttpoot: The COOT. Corruptions 
of “* Bald Coot” or “ Bald Pout.” It occurs in Rutty as 
** Belcoot or Baldcoot,” and is found in Scotland as Bellkite 
(=Baldcoot) and Bellpout (=Bald fowl). 
BELLONIUS’s ASH-COLOURED GuLL: The KITTIWAKE GULL. 
(Willughby.) 
BELLRINGER: The LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. (Kirkcud- 
bright.) 
Bett-TuHrostite: The MISTLE-THRUSH. 
Bett WicEoN: The SCAUP-DUCK. (Teesmouth). 
Belted Kingfisher. A North American species of doubtful 
occurrence in the British Isles. The name occurs in Wilson’s 
“ Amer. Ornith.” 
BettrE: The COOT. Probably a corruption of Baldie (see 
Bellcoot). 
BENFELEN (Y): The YELLOW BUNTING. (North Wales) ; 
lit. “the yellow head.” 
