120 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
Hersog yr Hepypp. A Welsh name for the HOBBY; lit. 
“lark falcon.” 
HEBRIDAL SANDPIPER: The TURNSTONE. (Pennant.) 
Hxcco. An obsolete name for the GREEN WOODPECKER. 
from A.Sax hicgan=to try. Occurs in Drayton’s 
“The Owl” as “ sharp neb’d hecco.” 
HECcKLE or HEEKLE: The GREEN WOODPECKER. From the_ 
same derivaticn as Hecco. 
Heckymat, Hackyman, Hacxmat, Hagman, Hickman: The 
BLUE TITMOUSE. (Cornwall and Devonshire.) From 
the strong pecks which it deals with its bill, according tv 
Swainson. Heckymal is also a Dartmoor name for the 
GREAT TITMOUSE. 
Hepce-Accentor. Sometimes applied to the HEDGE- 
SPARROW, on account of its belonging to the former 
genus Accentor, and to avoid the misnomer “Sparrow.” 
The name is found in Selby (1825) and was adopted by 
Yarrell (1848). 
Hepecet-Betry: The HEDGE-SPARROW. (Provincial.) 
HEDGE-CHANTER: The HEDGE-SPARROW. (Macgillivray.) 
Also a local name in Yorkshire. 
HepGe-Cuat: The HEDGE-SPARROW. (Northants.) 
Hepce-Cuicken: The WHITETHROAT. (Provincial.) 
HEDGE-CHICcKER: The WHEATEAR. (Previncial.) 
HEDGE-CREEPER: The HEDGE-SPARROW. (Yorkshire.) 
HepGe-Jue: The HEDGE-SPARROW. (Provincial.) From 
the shape of the nest. 
HEDGE-MIKE: The HEDGE-SPARROW. (Sussex.) 
HEDGE-SPARROW [No. 188, British Hedge-Sparrow ; No. 187, 
Continental Hedge-Sparrow]. The name occurs as 
‘* Hedge-sparr’w ” in Chaucer, and as ‘“‘ Hedge sparrow ” 
in Turner (1544), in Merrett, and in Willughby; 
and we find it stated in the latter that, “In the 
nest of this bird the Cuckow is said to lay her egg, which 
the foolish bird sits upon, hatches and brings up the young 
one till it be fledg’d and can shift for itself.” Chaucer also 
alludes to the Cuckoo in his “ Parliament of Foules ” as the 
‘““murtherer ” of the Hedge-Sparrow that brought it forth. 
Turner identifies the Trogledytes of AXtius and others with 
the Hedge-Sparrow, but it is of course the WREN. 
Hartert has lately separated the resident British form from 
the Continental form, only a few examples of which have, 
however, yet been certainly identified here. 
