GREY—GRUGIAR. Lil bs 
Grey Skit: The WATER-RAIL. (Devonshire.) From its 
stealthy habit of running (“skit to slide). 
Grey Snipe: The RED-BREASTED SANDPIPER. (Gould.) 
Grey Starting: The young STARLING. (East Lothian.) 
From its greyish-brown plumage. 
Grey THrusH: The FIELDFARE. (Scotland.) Also the 
MISTLE-THRUSH according to Macgillivray, while the 
SONG-THRUSH is known in parts of England as Grey-bird 
or Grey Throstle. 
GREY WAGTAIL [No. 80]. The name originates in the slate- 
grey of the upper-parts. It occurs first in Willughby 
(1678). Pennant calls it Grey Water Wagtail. 
Grey YocteE: The SHORT-EARED OWL. (Shetlands.) 
Yogle—Owl. 
GRIFFON-VULTURE [No. 254]. This is the Grype or Gryffon 
of Aldrovandus, from which the name seems to be derived. 
It is found in Yarreil’s First Supp. (1845) as an English 
species. 
GricEAR. A Cornish name for the PARTRIDGE; also 
the female BLACK GROUSE. 
GRISARD : The GLAUCOUS GULL. (Bewick.) 
GRISELLED SANDPIPER: The KNOT in winter-plumage. 
GRosBEAK: The HAWFINCH. (Willughby, Pennant, etc.) 
It is a frequent name for this bird in Yorkshire. 
GROUND FEATHERPOKE: The WILLOW-WARBLER. (Don- 
caster). See “ Featherpoke.” 
GrounpD Huckmuck, Grounp Isaac, GRoundD OvEN: The 
WILLOW-WARBLER. English provincial names, in 
allusion to the structure and materials of its nest (Isaac is 
a corruption of “ hayjack,” q.v.). 
GrounD Lark: The SKY-LARK, generally ; also the CORN- 
BUNTING (Doncaster); and the MEADOW-PIPIT 
(Cleveland, Yorkshire). 
GrounD WrREN: The WILLOW-WARBLER (Cheshire, 
Yorkshire, Scotland); the CHIFFCHAFF (Yorkshire). 
Grous: The RED GROUSE. (Pennant.) This is the ancient 
form of spelling. 
Grouse. The RED GROUSE is frequently termed Grouse 
simply. 
Grove Perrycuars: The WOOD-WARBLER.  (Provincial.) 
GRUGIAR DpU: The BLACK GROUSE. (North Wales) lit. 
“black heather hen.” 
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