102 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
Grass-CRAKE: The LAND-RAIL. (Ackworth, Yorkshire.) 
Grass Quake (Barnsley) is, perhaps, a corruption. 
Grass Drake: The LAND-RAIL. (West Yorkshire.) Gress 
Drake and Dress Drake are corruptions. 
GRASSHOPPER CHIRPER. Macgillivray’s name for the GRASS- 
HOPPER-WARBLER 
GRASSHOPPER Lark: The GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER. 
(Pennant.) 
GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER [No. 133]. Occurs first as the 
“Grasshopper Lark” in Pennant’s “ British Zoology ” 
(1766 ed.), as “‘ Grasshopper Lark Warbler” in his later 
editions, and as the GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER in 
Latham’s “ Synopsis,”’ but is first mentioned by Willughby 
(1678) as the “Titlark that sings like a Grosshopper ” 
(p. 207). 
Grass Mumrvurrin: The WILLOW-WARBLER. (Worcester- 
shire.) 
Grass Quait: The LAND-RAIL. (Cheshire.) 
Grass WHEew. A Yorkshire name for the female WIGEON. 
Whew is from the note; Grass probably refers to sea- 
grass (Zostera) of which they are very fond (Witherby). 
Grass WREN or GRASS WARBLER. (Cleveland, Yorkshire.) 
Names for beth the WILLOW-WARBLER and _ the 
CHIFFCHAFF. 
Gray: The GADWALL. (Willughby.) 
GREAT ALLAN or Bic Attan: The POMATORHINE SKUA. 
(Yorkshire coast.) 
GREAT ASH-COLOURED BuTcHER Birp: The GREAT GREY 
SHRIKE. (Pennant.) 
GREAT ASH-COLOURED SHRIKE: The GREAT GREY SHRIKE. 
(Bewick, 1797.) 
GREAT AUK [No. 444]. The present name of this species is ~ 
not of any antiquity. The older name is Penguin, which 
occurs in Pennant (1766), but the latter calls it Great Auk 
in the 1776 edition, as do also Latham, Lewin, Wa!cott, 
Montagu, ete. Willughby (1678) calls it “the bird called 
Penguin by our sea-men.” Sibbald (1684) mentions it as 
“the bird called Gare ”’ (see Gare-fowl). This fine species 
is thought to have been formerly an inhabitant of the north 
of Scotland and the Scottish Isles, yet whether it was of 
more than accidental occurrence elsewhere than in St. 
Kilda is open to grave doubt. Gould thinks it ‘‘ doubtless 
existed, and probably bred, up to the year 1830,” on the 
