124 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
Hoitm Cock, Horm Screecu, or Hotm TorusH: The MISTLE- 
THRUSH. (Cornwall, Devonshire, Dorsetshire) ; in Yorkshire 
‘* Hollin-Cock.” From its partiality to the berries of the 
holly or holm (Mid. Eng. holin) and from its loud song or 
its harsh note when taking flight. 
HONEY-BUZZARD [No. 252]. Willughby (1678) thought it 
new and gave it the name of Honey-Buzzard from having 
found the combs of wasps’ nests in its nest. It was however 
the Boudree of Belon (1555). Its food is the wasps and bees 
and their larve, not their honey, a fact which perhaps 
accounted for Macgillivray’s attempt to change the name 
to “ Brown Bee-Hawk.”’ 
Hoop Awt: The GREEN WOODPECKER. (Cornwall.) 
Perhaps a corruption of Wood Awl, which is possibly 
again a corruption of Whetile, from A.Sax. thwitan—to cut. 
HOODED CROW [No. 2]. The name Hooded Crow is first 
used by Pennant. Willughby and Ray call it the Royston 
Crow; Turner called it the “‘ Winter Crow.” The term 
Hooded is derived from the black head and nape contrasting 
with the grey of the mantle. For description of a curious 
ceremony practised by Scottish herdsmen, in which offerings 
are made to the hooded crow, eagle, ete., to induce them 
to spare the flocks, see Pennant’s ‘‘ Tour in Scotland,” 11, 
pp. 110-11. 
The Guil, the Gordon and the Hooded Craw, 
Were the three worst things Murray ever saw, 
is a Morayshire saying (the guile, or gule, being an obnoxious 
weed). The CARRION-CROW is frequently called Hooded 
Crow or Hoodie in Scotland, while in the Orkneys and in 
East Lothian, according to Swainson, the BLACK-HEADED 
GULL is known as Hooded Crow or Hooded Mew. 
HOODED MERGANSER [No. 315, American Hooded Mer- 
ganser]. The name is found in Selby and also in Yarrell 
and succeeding authors. 
Hoopep Tern: The LITTLE TERN. From the black crown 
and nape. 
Hoopie or Huppre Craw: The HOODED CROW. (Scottish 
Borders.) 
Hooter: The BARN-OWL. (Scottish Lowlands.) Also applied 
to the TAWNY OWL. 
Hoor or Cock Hoor: The BULLFINCH. (Cornwall, Devon- 
shire, Dorsetshire, Somersetshire, and Upton-on-Severn.) 
It seems to be derived from the bird’s_ whistling- 
note. The name Hoop or Houp is also applied to the 
HOOPOE (q.v.) 
