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CromMAN LocHAIDH. A Gaelic name for the KITE. Croman is 
used in Iona and Mull, according to Graham, not only for 
the KITE, but other large hawks. 
CromMAN Lorn. A Gaelic name for the COMMON SNIPE. 
CROM NAR ANILEAG: The WOODCOCK. (Iona and Mull) lit. 
“crooked thing of the leaves.” 
CROOKED BILL: The AVOCET. Montagu gives it as a pro- 
vincial name. 
CROPIEDYDD: The TREECREEPER. (North Wales) _ lit. 
** creeper.” 
CrossBiLL. See COMMON CROSSBILL. 
CROTCHET-TAILED Puttock: The KITE. Occurs in Mac- 
gillivray. Swainson gives “ Crotch tail’ as an Essex name 
for the species. Crotchet-tailed—fork-tailed. 
Crourpy Craw. A North Country name for the RAVEN. 
(Swainson.) Croupy would be from its harsh cry, and 
craw=crow. 
Crow: The CARRION-CROW is often so termed without the 
prefix. Pennant (1766) calls the species “ Crow ” simply. 
The name is also applied popularly to the ROOK. 
CrucHetT: The RING-DOVE. Chiefly North of England or 
Scotland ; probably a variant of ‘‘ Cushat.” 
CryEL Heron or Dwarr Heron. Turner’s name for a species 
of Heron, which I take to be the LITTLE EGRET. 
Cuacu. A Gaelic name for the CUCKOO. (Iona and Mull.) 
Imitative of its ery. 
CuckEE: The MANX SHEARWATER. 
CUCKOO [No. 214]. The name is onomapoetic, and is such a 
well received example. of a sound-name, that the bird has 
very few provincial names. This is also the case with its 
name in most ancient and modern languages, i.e. Gr. 
coccys, Lat. cuculus, Fr. coucou, Ger. kuckuck, Welsh cweew 
and Cog, Gaelic Cuthag, Sanskrit kokila, etc. In Old and 
Middle English it occurs as coccou, cuccu, cukkow, cocow ; 
later it occurs as Cuckow. Chaucer spells it “‘ Cuckowe ”’ ; 
Turner (1544) has “cukkouu” and “gouke.” Merrett 
(1667) has ‘“‘ Cuckoe or Guckoe.” The spelling “* Cuckoo ” 
is found in Barlow’s plates (1655). A ‘‘ Cuckoo Song ”’ of 
the thirteenth century (from the Harleian MS8., 978) com- 
mencing : — 
Somer is icumen in 
Lhude sing cuccu. 
will be found in the ‘“‘ Trans. Philolog. Soc.,”’ 1868-9. 
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