FAIRY—FELT. 85 
Fasceppar: The ARCTIC SKUA. (Newton.) From Gaelic 
fasgadair, a squeezer. 
Fauverte. Properly the female of the ORPHEAN WARBLER. 
Used by Buffon (‘‘ Hist. Nat.,” Ois., vol. v, p. 117). It has 
also been applied to other species by various writers, the 
Fauvette of some of the old English writers being the 
GARDEN-WARBLER, while the Winter Fauvette of 
Bewick is the HEDGE-SPARROW, and his Fauvette and 
Lesser Fauvette the GARDEN-WARBLER. 
FeapaGc. A Gaelic name for the GOLDEN PLOVER, and also 
the REDSHANK. (Western Isles) lit. “the little 
whistler.” 
Fraser: The ARCTIC SKUA. (Bewick.) 
FEATHER-PoKE. A common Provincial name for the curious 
nest (poke pocket) of the LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE, 
but commonly used for the bird. It is a general Yorkshire 
name also for the CHIFFCHAFF, while in north and west 
Yorkshire the WILLOW-WARBLER is called Feather- 
poke, and in east Yorkshire the LONG-TAILED TIT- 
MOUSE. Feather-bed is an Oxfordshire name for the 
WILLOW-WARBLER, from its lining its nest with 
feathers. Swainson says Feather-bird is a Northants. name 
for the WHITETHROAT, which, however, does not use 
feathers. Bolam says in Northumberland it is also applied 
to the CHIFFCHAFF and WILLOW-WARBLER, while 
Coward and Oldham apply it in Cheshire to the latter 
species. 
Frepoa. Occurs in Turner for a species of Godwit. Newton 
says the species it was intended for cannot be discovered. 
FELDFARE, FELDYFAR, FELDEFARE, FELTYFARE, FELDY, or 
FELFER. Common provincial names for the FIELDFARE. 
Occurs in Merrett as ‘“‘ Feldefare,” and as “ Felde”’ in 
Chaucer. 
Fett Buackie (Fell Blackbird): The RING-OUZEL. (Sed- 
bergh, Yorkshire.) 
Fevt or Fettre: The FIELDFARE. (Staffordshire, Notts., 
Northumberland, Berwick, Northants.) In Ireland the 
MISTLE-THRUSH is called Big Felt, and Thompson 
says the REDWING is also known as Felt or Small 
Felt, while in Yorkshire the latter species is called Felfer 
and in South Scotland Feltie is applied to the MISTLE- 
THRUSH. These names are corruptions or abbreviations 
of “‘feldefare”’ (see Fieldfare). 
