162 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
Mountain Partridge. A variety of the COMMON PARTRIDGE. 
Mountain Sparrow. An old name for the TREE-SPARROW. 
It occurs in Albin, Pennant and Montagu, and is also a local 
Cheshire name for the species at the present day. 
Mountain THRusH: The RING-OUZEL. (Kirkcudbright.) 
MovusE Fatcon. .A name for the KESTREL. (Hett.) 
Movust-Hawk. A provincial name for the SHORT-EARED 
OWL (Montagu); also the KESTREL  (Loftus-in- 
Cleveland, and Beverley, Yorkshire). 
Mup-pABBER or Mup-stoppeR: The NUTHATCH. (South 
England.) So called from its habit of plastering round its 
nesting-hole with mud. 
Mup Lark. A name for the ROCK-PIPIT. (Hett.) 
Mup Prover. A name for the GREY PLOVER from its 
frequenting flats on the sea-shore. 
Murrig Wren: The WILLOW-WARBLER. (Renfrew.) 
Mourritr: The WHITETHROAT. (Scotland.) Because the 
feathers of the head and neck stand out so as to suggest 
a muffler. 
Mucey: The WHITETHROAT. (North Yorkshire.) Newton 
thinks it is possibly cognate with the latter part of Germ. 
Grasmicke (Grass-Midge), but perhaps it is only a corruption 
of Meggie, as Nelson and Clarke say. both names are in use 
in the North Riding of Yorkshire. 
Murr Duck (Moor Duck): The MALLARD. (Stirling.) 
Muir £UN (pron. murr-yan): The COMMON GUILLEMOT. 
(Horn Head, Donegal.) 
Morr Fowt or Murr Hen: The RED GROUSE. (Scotland.) 
Mute: The SCAUP DUCK. (Wexford.) 
Muurran, Morrran. Welsh names for the CORMORANT. The 
first signifies “‘ shy crow,” the second “sea-crow.”’ 
MuLFRAN GopoG, Morrran GoroG: The SHAG. (North Wales) 
lit. ‘‘ crested cormorant.” 
MuLFRAN WEN: The GANNET. (North Wales) lit. “‘ white 
cormorant.” 
MULFRAN WERDD, MorFrRaAN WERDD: The SHAG. (North 
Wales) lit. “‘ green cormorant.” 
Muturt. Willughby gives this as a Scarborough name for the 
PUFFIN. 
Moutiet Hawk. An old name for the OSPREY. 
Mum-rvuFFiIn: The LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. (Worcester- 
shire, Shropshire.) 
