126 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
HornFincH: The STORM-PETREL. (Provincial.) 
Hornovut or Horn-Owi: The LONG-EARED OWL. The 
first mame occurs in Turner, the second in Willughby 
and many subsequent writers up to Bewick. Horned Owl 
is an English provinciai name, and Hornie Oolet cr Hornie 
Hoolet a Scots one for the species. 
Horn-PigE: The LAPWING. (Norfolk and Suffolk.) From 
its erectile crest and its pied plumage. 
Horra Goose or Horrie Goose: The BRENT GOOSE. (Shet- 
lands.) From its frequenting the Sound of Horra. 
Horse Fixcu: The CHAFFINCH. Montagu gives it as a 
provincial name. It is also called Horse-dung Finch, from 
its frequenting the roads. 
HorsE Gowk or Hors—e Gawk: The COMMON SNIPE. 
(Orkneys and Shetlands.) Because the “drumming” is 
supposed to resemble the neighing of a horse (Swainson.) 
It has also been rendered Hoarse Gowk, which implies 
another meaning. 
Horse Lark: The CORN-BUNTING. (Cornwall.) 
HorsrE MasHer or Horst SmatcH: The WHEATEAR. (Corn- 
wall.) 
HorsE TurusH: The MISTLE-THRUSH. (Northants.) 
Hortuton or HorrutaneE: The ORTOLAN BUNTING. 
(Albin.) 
Hovuss-Martin: The MARTIN. So called from its building 
under the eaves and porches of houses. Montagu gives it 
as a provincial name. 
HOUSE-SPARROW [No. 40]. Perhaps the most commen and 
well-known of British birds. The name “Sparrow” is of 
great antiquity, and is the A.Sax. Spearwa, Goth. Sparva, 
while it is the Passer of classical writers, and occurs under 
this name in Aristotle, who says it is of all birds the most 
wanton. ‘‘ House-Sparrow ” occurs in Merrett’s list (1667) 
and in Willughby (1678), but Turner (1544) calls it simply 
“Sparrow,” which is now and has generally been the col- 
loquial name for the species. As regards folk-lore I do not 
find very much relating to this bird. A Yorkshire legend, 
however, of the Hermit of Lindholme on Hatfield Chase, 
is to the effect that being left at home when a boy to keep 
the sparrows from the corn he shut them all up in a barn 
without a door, and when his parents got home the birds 
were all found lying dead on the floor, and the only sparrow 
seen in the place since was a solitary one as white as snow 
(“‘ Folklore Journal,’’? December, 1883). A similar tale, 
