14 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
BARTRAM’S SANDPIPER [No. 369]. A rare American 
visitor, the name being found in Wilson. Also known as 
Bartram’s Tatler. 
Bass Cock: The PUFFIN. (Scotland.) From its frequenting 
the Bass Rock. 
Bass GoosE: The GANNET. (Scotland.) From its being 
found on the Bass Rock. Swainson also gives Basser as a 
Forfarshire name. 
BastaRD PiLovER: The LAPWING. Occurs in Merrett and 
Willughby, and Nelson and Clarke cite it as an ancient 
Hull name for the bird (1560). 
Batty Biro: The LITTLE EGRET. 
Bawk1ie, Baukie, or BAWKEE: The RAZORBILL. (Orkneys.) 
An equivalent cf Auk. 
Bay Duck: The SHELD-DUCK. (Norfolk.) From the chest- 
nut band on the breast. 
Bay Ipis: The GLOSSY IBIS. 
Bram-Birp: The SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. (South and east 
England). Perhaps an equivalent of “ Rafter-bird ” (q.v.). 
BEAN-CRAKE: The LAND-RAIL. Montagu gives it as a 
provincial name; Swainson says Bean-Crake or Bean 
Cracker is a South Pembroke name for the species. 
BEAN-GOOSE [No. 277]. The name is first found in Pennant. 
It is also called “Corn Goose,” a name arising from the 
bird’s partiality to grain and pulse (Swainson). It is the 
‘** Wild Goose ” of some parts of Scotland and Ireland, and 
is so called in Fleming and some other authors. According 
to Yarrell the noise in the air attributed to the Gabriel or 
Wish Hounds, is-really caused by this species (see “‘ Gabble 
Ratchet ”’). 
BEARDED Bustarp: The GREAT BUSTARD. From the 
moustache-like tuft on each side of the head. 
BEARDED PINNOCK or BEARDED REEDLING: ‘The BEARDED 
TITMOUSE. (Provincial.) 
BEARDED TITMOUSE [No. 105]. The name Bearded Tit- 
mouse first appears in Albin. Edwards calls it the Least 
Butcher-Bird and Pennant in his folio “ Brit. Zoology ” 
(1766) follows Edwards and places it with the Shrikes under 
the name of the ‘‘ Lest Butcher Bird,” but in his later - 
editions he calls it Bearded Titmouse. The name is derived 
from the tuft of black feathers resembling a moustache 
running backward from the gape. It is frequently abbre- 
viated to Bearded Tit. 
