88 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
Flanders in the winter time to the coasts of Languedoc. 
For I believe there was scarce ever seen about Flanders a 
bird of this kind.” The ancients reckoned the tongue of 
this bird among the choicest dainties. The belief that the 
Flamingo stands against its conically-shaped nest, with 
its rump covering the eggs, instead of sitting on the nest, 
appears to date from Dampier’s observations of the American 
species in Curacao in the latter part of the seventeenth 
century. It is not until recent times that it has been 
conclusively settled that they sit with the legs folded 
under the body in the usual manner. 
FLAMMANT: The FLAMINGO (q.v.). 
Fraprer. The young of the MALLARD before taking wing, 
after which they are called Wild Ducks. The term is also 
applied to the young of other wild species of duck. 
FLAT-BILLED SANDPIPER. Macgillivray’s name for the BROAD- 
BILLED SANDPIPER. 
Fuat Finch: The BRAMBLING. (Cheshire.) 
Frax: The WHITETHROAT. (Shropshire.) 
Fuax-Fincu: The CHAFFINCH (Tunstall, 1784): “Fleck 
Linnet ” is still in use in South Holderness. 
FLEINGALL: The KESTREL. (Provincial.) Swainson makes 
it an equivalent of Windhover (i.e. “ Fly in Gale”). 
FursH Crow: The CARRION-CROW. (Yorkshire.) From 
its fondness for carrion. 
Furet-rair: The REDSTART. (Ackworth, Yorkshire.) 
FLITtrERCHACK: The RING-OUZEL. (Orkneys.) 
FrusHer: The RED-BACKED SHRIKE. (Obsolete.) Wil- 
lughby (1678) records it as a Yorkshire name. Newton 
thinks it should be “‘ Flesher,’? a common North Country 
word for butcher, and it is also sometimes spelt “ Flasher.” 
FLycaTcHEeR: The SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. (Pennant.) 
Fotk: The RAZORBILL. Occurs in Martin’s ‘‘ Voyage to St. 
Kilda.” 
Fooutish DotrereL: The DOTTEREL. For explanation of 
the term “‘ foolish,” see under DOTTEREL. 
FoouisH Guittemot : The COMMON GUILLEMOT. (Fleming.) 
From the indifference to the approach of man when breeding. 
FootisH Sparrow: The HEDGE-SPARROW. From its so 
frequently being made the dupe of the CUCKOO. 
Foot’s Coat: The GOLDFINCH. According to Sir Thomas 
Browne this was an old name of the species, the inference 
