172 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
Our Lapy’s Hen. An old Scots name for the WREN. 
(Swainson.) 
OvzEL, OvuizLE, UzzLE, OUSEL, or OUSEL Cock : The BLACK- 
BIRD properly (Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cheshire, etc.) ; 
but sometimes also applied without prefix to the RING- 
QUZEL, where that northern species predominates, the 
Blackbird on the other hand being sometimes designated 
Black Ousel. Occurs locally as Qossel or Ussel (North 
Yorkshire), and also Amzel, the latter actually seeming to 
be the correct form, as the derivation is from A.Sax. dsle 
(=amsele) the long 0 as Skeat points out standing for am 
or an, and being synonymic wi th Old High Ger. amsalc 
and Mod. Ger. amsel, a Blackbird. The word occurs 
in our Mid. Eng. as osel and osul. Shakespeare (“‘ Mid- 
summer Night’s. Dream ’’) refers to the ‘‘ ousel cock, so 
black of hue, with orange-tawny bill.” 
OveEN-Birp, OVEN Tit, or GRoUND-OVEN. Norfolk names tor tne 
WILLOW-WARBLER. From the shape of its nest. In 
the same county the LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE is called 
Bush-oven, from the position of its nest, while it is known 
as Oven’s-nest in Northamptonshire and Oven-bird or 
Oven-builder in Scotland (Stirling). 
OveR-SEA Brrp or OveR-SEA Linnet: The SNOW-BUNTING. 
( Yorkshire.) 
Ox-Birp or Ox-EvE: The DUNLIN, and also the SANDER- 
LING (Kent and Essex). Perhaps from the full round 
eye, like an ox’s. 
OxEN-AND-KinE: The RUFF (obsolete). Appears to have 
been a name for this species about the end of the sixteenth 
century. Swainson cites references to it in the introduction 
to “‘ Expenses of the Judges of Assize, going the Western 
and Oxfcrd circuits, between 1596 and 1601,” reprinted in 
Vol. xtv, of “Camden Miscellany,” 1857, also Carew’s 
“Survey of Cornwall,” 1602, p. 108. Mr. Harting in 
Intro. Rodd’s “ Birds of Cornwall,” p. xvii, cites it (no 
doubt from Carew) as an old Cornish name “for some 
unknown small species of wildfowl.”’ 
Ox-Eyr. A common provincial name for the GREAT TIT- 
MOUSE. Occursin Willughby. Perhaps so called from the 
large white patch on the side of the head, resembling that 
sometimes seen on the face of an ox. It is also a Border 
name for the BLUE TITMOUSE, according to Bolam. 
Ox-EYE CREEPER: The TREECREEPER. Occurs in Merrett 
(1667) and also Charleton (1668). 
