DINNICK—DOTTEREL. 75) 
Drtrcn BuackigE: The RING-OUZEL. (East Lothian.) 
Dircnw Lark: The MEADOW-PIPIT. (Skipton, Yorkshire.) 
DivE-DarreR: The GREAT CRESTED GREBE (Merrett) ; 
also the LITTLE GREBE (see “ Didapper’’), said to be 
in use in Lincolnshire. The name occurs in Shakespeare 
(‘‘ Venus and Adonis ”’), but it is doubtful for which species : 
Like a dive-dapper peering through a wave, 
Who, being looked on, ducks as quickly in. 
Swainson gives Dive an’ dop and Divy Duck as Norfolk 
names for the LITTLE GREBE. 
Diver: The COMMON POCHARD and the GOLDENEYE. 
(Roxburgh.) 
Divine Duck: The GOLDENEYE. (Shetland Isles.) 
Divine Picton : The BLACK GUILLEMOT. (Farn Isles.) 
Dos, Dour, Dourr, Dowr, or DowK: The CARRION-CROW. 
(Yorkshire, Westmorland.) 
Doscuick: The LITTLE GREBE. (Provincial.) It occurs in 
Willughby, and is an equivalent of Dabchick. Dobber is 
said to be a casual form of the name in Yorkshire. 
Doc-tait: The LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. (Cheshire.) 
Dotuproprer. A provincial name for the MOORHEN, according 
to Hett. 
Donety : The HEDGE-SPARROW.  (Lancashire.) 
DorsieE: The DUNLIN. (Banft.) 
Dor-HAWK or Dorr-HAWK: The NIGHTJAR ; from its feeding 
on the mischievous ‘“ Dor-beetle.”’ It occurs in Charleton 
(1668), and is still in use in Cornwall and East Suffolk 
apparently. Hett also gives Dog-hawk, perhaps a mis- 
spelling. 
Dot Prover: The DOTTEREL. (Norfolk.) 
DOTTEREL [No. 356]. According to Newton, the word is 
a diminutive of dolt. The name appears as Doterell in 
Caius (or Kay), who also calls it morinellus, its present 
specific name. Drayton (1613) has “ Dotterell.” It occurs 
in Merrett’s list (1667) as Dotterel; Willughby has “ Dot- 
trel,” as have also most of the later writers up to Montagu 
(1802). Kay remarks that it is a very foolish bird, and is 
taken in the night time, by the light of a candle, by imitating 
the gestures of the fowler, for if he stretches out an arm 
the bird also stretches out a wing, if he a foot the bird like- 
wise a foot; in brief, whatever the fowler does, the bird 
does the same, and so being intent upon the man’s gestures 
it is deceived, and covered with the net spread for it. The 
