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NORTHERN GREAT Sporr—ED WOODPECKER. See GREAT 
SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
NortTHEerRN HaretD : The LONG-TAILED DUCK. (Aberdeen.) 
Hareld is from haveld, the Icelandic name of the bird. 
NORTHERN LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE [No. 100]. The 
Continental form of the LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. It 
was formerly called the White-headed Long-tailed Titmouse. 
NortHern Meaty Reprott: COUES’S REDPOLL. 
NORTHERN PENGUIN: The GREAT AUK. (Edwards.) 
NorTHERN WitLow-Titmouse. See WILLOW-TITMOUSE. 
NortTHERN WiLLow-WaARBLER. See WILLOW-WARBLER. 
Norway Barnacte: The BARNACLE-GOOSE. (Ireland.) 
Norway Crow: The HOODED CROW. (Northumberland, 
Yorkshire, Norfolk.) From its being supposed they visit 
us in winter from Norway. Northern Crow is also a 
Craven name for the species. 
Norway Duck: The SCAUP DUCK. (Belfast.) Norwegian 
Teal is also a Banff name for the same species. 
Norway NicHTINGALE. A name for the REDWING. (Hett.) 
NORWEGIAN BLUETHROAT [No. 182]. Generally known as 
Red-spotted Bluethroat. It is the Blue-throated Redstart 
of Edwards (pl. 28), the Blue-throated Robin of Bewick, and 
the Blue-throated Warbler of Yarrell and Jenyns. 
Nun or Wuitt Nun: The male SMEW. (Northumberland.) 
From its black-and-white plumage: Willughby calls it 
the ‘‘ White Nun.’ Also the BLUE TITMOUSE, from its 
banded head (occurs in Turner and Willughby). 
NUTBREAKER: The NUTCRACKER. Appears to be the first 
English name given to this bird and is found in the index to 
Willughby (1678), no English name being given in the text. 
NutT-BRown Birp. A name for the PARTRIDGE. (Hett.) 
NUTCRACKER [No. 7, Thick-Billed Nutcracker; No. 8, 
Slender-Billed Nutcracker]. The name Nutcracker seems 
to be first found in Edwards’s Gleanings (plate 240, 1758). 
The earliest mention of this species appears to be in 
Turner (1544) who says “besides the said three kinds 
of Graculi described by Aristotle, I know a fourth, which I 
have seen upon the Rhetic Alps ... Now to this the 
Rheetians have given the name of Nucifraga, from the nuts 
which it breaks with its bill and eats.” The form breeding 
in Europe is now separated from the form breeding in 
Siberia and visiting Europe in winter : hence the two names. 
In Shropshire the name is applied to the NUTHATCH. 
