4 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
Atk: The RAZORBILL; literally signifying auk, being no 
doubt from Icelandic alka, auk (q.v.). 
ALLAN. A Scots name for a Skua; generally the ARCTIC 
SKUA, which in East Scotland is called Dirty Allan or Aulin ; 
in Orkney, Scouty Allan or Aulin, and Weese Allan; 
Macgillivray spells it ‘‘ Allen.” 
ALLECAMPAGNE. The BLUE TITMOUSE is so-called in Corn- 
wall (Swainson). 
Allen’s Gallinule. A single example, captured off Yarmouth, is 
thought to have escaped from captivity. 
Aur: The BULLFINCH. (Obsolete.) Synonymic with Alph, 
Awbe, Olp, Olph, Olf and Ulf, but the derivation is un- 
known. Occurs in Chaucer (‘‘ Romaunt of the Rose’) and 
Willughby. Possibly from Alb (Mid. Eng. albe) a derivate 
of Lat. albus (white), the rump being very conspicuously pure 
white. Gael. “ Alp” signifies a high mountain, and does 
not seem to have any connexion with the present word, 
although, according to Skeat, connected with Lat. albus. 
Olph appears to be still in local use for the Bullfinch 
(‘‘ Blood-Olph ”’) and Greenfinch (“‘ Green-Olph ”). Swain- 
son seems to be in error in supposing Hoop or Hope to be 
derived from Alp, as Hoop seems to be clearly from the 
bird’s note. Nope and Mwope, however, may be from Alp. 
ALPINE ACCENTOR [No. 186]. So-called from its inhabiting 
the Alps and other mountain ranges of South Europe. The 
name first appears in Fleming’s ‘“ Hist. of Brit. Animals” 
(1828), probably as a translation of Temminck’s “ Accenteur 
des Alpes” (1820). Its former generic name of Accentor, 
Lat. accentum, Fr. ad, to, and cantus, singing, was bestowed 
on account of its song. Also sometimes rendered Alpine 
Chanter and Alpine Warbler. 
Alpine Chough. An accidental visitor of doubtful status on the 
British List. The name occurs in Latham as “ Alpine Crow.” 
ALPINE RING-OUZEL [No. 163]. An Alpine form of the 
RING-OUZEL. 
ALPINE SWIFT [No. 199]. <A native, as its name implies, of 
the Alps, and other parts of South Europe. The name is 
found in Selby (1825). It is the White-bellied Swift of 
Gould. 
ALPINE VULTURE: The EGYPTIAN VULTURE. (Bewick.) 
AMADAN MornticH or AN TAMADAN MOINTICH. A Gaelic name 
for the DOTTEREL; lit. “the fool of the moor” or 
peat-bog. 
