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connection with awkward, or aukward, signifying unhandy 
or contraryward, the prefix auk or awk being from the 
Icel. afig or 6fg. Thename Auk appears formerly to have 
more properly belonged to the RAZORBILL; Willughby 
gives it as the North of England name for that species, 
and Sibbald mentions the RAZORBILL by the name 
of Auk (see-GREAT AUK), as also does Pennant (1766). 
Swainson gives Auk as an Orkney name for the COMMON 
GUILLEMOT. 
Australian Gallinule. Examples of this species recorded as 
British are regarded as escaped birds. 
AUSTRIAN PRATINCOLE: The PRATINCOLE. (Montagu.) 
AVOCET [No. 401]. Also spelt Avoset. Der. from the 
Ferrarese Avosetta or Avocetta, probably literally a graceful 
bird (dim. of Lat. avis). The name occurs in Willughby 
(1678) as the ‘‘ Avosetta of the Italians.” It is called 
Scooper (q.v.) by Charleton (1668), Avosetta by Pennant 
(1766), while Montagu and others call it Scooping Avoset ; 
Yarrell also calls it Avoset. 
Awt-Birp: The AVOCET. So called from the shape of the 
bill resembling an awl. From A.Sax. awel, Mid-Eng. aul, 
eawl, an awl or pointed instrument for piercing. Also 
applied to the GREEN WOODPECKER ; Montagu gives 
it as a provincial name for that species. 
Baacte or Barerz. A Shetland name for the GREAT BLACK- 
BACKED GULL. 
BaBBLER: The GREAT REED-WARBLRER. From its noisysong. 
BaBBLINc WarBLER. A provincial name for the LESSER 
WHITETHROAT. (Macgillivray.) 
BaBILLARD: The LESSER WHITETHROAT. (Montagu, ‘“ Orn. 
Dict.,”’ ed. Rennie, 1831.) Rennie adapted the name from 
the French, as pointed out by Newton, and it does not 
seem to have been in use colloquially, although given 
by Macgillivray as a provincial name. 
Bapock : The ARCTIC SKUA; also GREAT SKUA (Swainson). 
Bap Witty: The COMMON GUILLEMOT. 
Baer’s Duck. An East Siberian species, named by Radde in 
honour of K. E. von Baer. 
Bac: The LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. (Northants.) In 
allusion to the shape of its nest. 
BAILLON’S CRAKE [No. 458]. The name seems to occur 
first in Selby. This is the P. bailloni of Vieillot, hence the 
name. 
