78 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
Dryw wen: The WHITETHROAT and the GARDEN 
WARBLER. (North Wales) lit. “white wren.” 
Dupuy curaice. A Gaelic name for the RING-OUZEL. 
Ducker. A provincial name for the DIPPER, according to 
Macgillivray (see also ‘‘ Douker ”’). 
Duck Hawk: The NORTH AMERICAN PEREGRINE is 
usually so called; also applied to the PEREGRINE 
FALCON (Montagu) and the MARSH-HARRIER (Bewick), 
Dutwitty. A local name for the RINGED PLOVER. Skeat 
says it signifies dull of will or stupid. 
Dun: The KNOT. (Cheshire.) See also DUNNE. 
DunsBirp. A general name formerly applied by decoy-men and 
gunners to the smaller species of ducks, especially the 
COMMON POCHARD. Montagu gives it as a provincial 
name for this bird, while Bolam also gives it as a Northum- 
berland name, and Nelson and Clarke as a Yorkshire name 
for the same species. Nelson and Clarke also mention 
DunpocKER (Dun poker, or Dun Pochard) as a name on 
the river Hull. 
Dun-Crow: The HOODED CROW. Montagu gives it as 
a provincial name, and Swainson says it is a Craven name 
for the species. 
Dun CurrE: The COMMON POCHARD. (Provincial.) 
Dun Diver: The immature or female GOOSANDER and 
RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. (Yorkshire.) Occurs 
in Willughby for the former. 
Dunc-Birp : The HOOPOE. (Charleton.) 
DuNG-HUNTER: The immature GREAT BLACK-BACKED 
GULL. (Pennant.) Dung-bird is also applied to the 
ARCTIC SKUA (Bewick). Pennant says the former 
pursues the lesser Gulls until they void their excrement 
from fear, which it catches up and swallows. What really 
happens is that the pursued disgorge the fish they have 
recently swallowed. 
DUNLIN [No. 373]. So called from the colour of its plumage, 
from A.Sax. dunn—dark or obscure, lit. a little “dun ” 
bird, lin (=ling) being a diminutive. Mr. Harting has 
argued that this name should be spelled ‘ Dunling ” (see 
“Field,” Jan. 12th, 1884, and “ Brit. Birds,’’ Jan., 1912). He 
quotes the name as occurring in the “ Durham Household 
Book ” containing the accounts of the Monastery of Durham 
A.D. 1530-34, as ‘‘ Dunling,” but the change, even though 
countenanced by Prof. Newton, seems unnecessary, as if 
