OUR—PARTRICE. Pie 
OYSTERCATCHER [No. 351]. Occurs in Kay (1570) and in 
Willughby (1678) under the name of Sea-Pie, and Pennant 
(1766) uses the same name, but later writers call it the 
Pied Oyster-catcher. Oyster-Catcher is first used by 
Catesby (‘* Nat. Hist. Carolina ”’) in 1731 for the American 
species, which he (probably erroneously) believed to feed on 
oysters, and was adopted in this country by Pennant. 
OysTER PLoverR. A name for the OYSTERCATCHER. 
(Swainson. ) 
PADGE, PUDGE, or PuDGE OWL: The BARN-OWL. (Leicester- 
shire.) 
Pat: The PUFFIN. (North Wales) lit. “ Polly” (for Sea- 
parrot). 
PALE-BREASTED BRENT GoosE. See BRENT GOOSE. 
PALLAS’S GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER [No. 132]. A 
Siberian species named in honour of Pallas. 
PALLAS’S SAND-GROUSE [No. 350]. Called after the explorer 
and naturalist Pallas. Sand Grouse is first found in Latham 
(1783) being a rendering of Pallas’s name Tetrao arenarius. 
An irregular migrant from South-east Europe and Central 
Asia, the first great immigration of which to the British 
Islands took place in 1863, since when it has frequently 
visited us. 
PALLAS’S WARBLER [No. 128]. A Siberian species of 
Willow-Warbler, named in honour of Pallas, who first 
described it in 1827. 
Patores. A Cornish name for the CHOUGH. 
PANnDLE WHEW: The WIGEON. (Norfolk.) Whew is from 
its whistling note and pandle seems to mean a shrim 
(Swainson). It occurs in Bewick as ‘‘ Pandled Whew.” 
Parasitic GULL: The LONG-TAILED SKUA. (Gould.) 
Parkers. A Fen name for the smaller kinds of wild-ducks. 
Parrot or SEA ParRot: The PUFFIN. (Yorkshire.) From 
its bill being supposed to resemble a parrot’s. 
PARROT-CROSSBILL [No. 35]. So called from the bill being 
stouter and more parrot-like than that of the common form. 
It is first noticed by Pennant (‘‘ Br. Zool.,” ed. 1776) and 
the name is found in Selby (1825). 
Parson GULL or Parson Mew : The GREAT BLACK-BACKED 
GULL. (Cheshire, Sussex, Galway.) From the contrast 
of its black coat and white under-plumage. 
PaRTRICK, PARTRIG : The COMMON PARTRIDGE. (Yorkshire.) 
An equivalent. 
