DUTCH—EHEDYDD. 8l 
EAsINnG SWALLOw or EAvEs Swatitow : The MARTIN. (Craven.) 
See Easing Sparrow. 
EASTERLING. A name for the WIGEON. Rutty (‘““N.H. Co. 
Dublin”’) gives Easterling for the male and Lady fowl for the 
female, and Latham says they were sold in London under 
these names. 
EASTERN GOLDEN PLOVER: The ASIATIC GOLDEN PLOVER. 
EASTERN RUFOUS TURTLE-DOVE [No. 349]. An. East 
Asian species, recorded as occurring once near Scarborough. 
EASTERN SKY-LARK [No. 63]. A Western Asiatic form of the 
Sky-lark. 
EAST SIBERIAN MEADOW-BUNTING [No. 50]. An Eastern 
Asiatic species which has once reached our shores. 
Eave Sparrow : The HOUSE-SPARROW. (Notts.) 
Eave Swattow: The MARTIN. (Notts.) 
Ess: The COMMON BUNTING. Montagu gives it as a 
provincial name. 
Eps-SLEEPER : The DUNLIN. (Orkney and Shetland.) 
EppEerR: The COMMON EIDER. (Montagu.) 
Eee. Given by Aldrovandus as English name for an EAGLE. 
Eeret: The LITTLE EGRET. (Montagu.) 
Ecret Heron: The LITTLE EGRET. (Pennant.) 
Egyptian Goose. An introduced species, of which examples are 
not infrequently shot, but without any evidence that they 
are genuine visitors. It is included by Yarrell (Ist ed.) 
and others of our earlier authors. Macgillivray calls it 
Egyptian Fox-Goose. 
EGYPTIAN NIGHTJAR [No. 203]. This species, so-called 
because Lichtenstein’s type-example came from Egypt, 
ranges from the latter country to Afghanistan. 
EGYPTIAN VULTURE [No. 255]. The name is first found in 
Latham (“Syn.,” 1, p. 13). It is the Alpine Vulture of 
Bewick (1832) and other authors. Egyptian Vulture is 
derived either from its inhabiting Egypt and other parts 
of Africa, or else from Egypt being the locality of Linnzus’s 
type. 
Emer-Duck. The more general name for the COMMON 
EIDER. 
Exepypp: The SKY-LARK. (North Wales) lit. “a flier.” 
EHEDYDD BACH: The MEADOW-PIPIT and the ROCK-PIPIT. 
(North Wales) lit. “ little lark.” 
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