PELLILE—PHEASANT, Ayia 
Pen y tupwyn. A Welsh name for the MISTLE-THRUSH ; 
lit. “‘ chief of the grove.” 
Prroner. A young ROOK, after it has left the nest. 
PEREGRINE FALCON [No. 233]. Peregrine, from Lat. 
peregrinus= wandering, is sometimes used as the name 
of the species, but it is an adjective, not a substantive. 
The name Peregrine Falcon appears in Willughby (1678) 
being anglicized from the Falco peregrinus of Aldrovandus, 
who gives a good figure of it. Ray remarks that it “ took 
its name either from passing out of one country into another, 
or because it is not known where it builds.” In falconry 
the female used to be called Falcon-gentle and the male 
Tiercel-, Tassel- or Tercel-gentle (see “‘ Tiercel’’). 
Perry Hawk: The PEREGRINE FALCON. (Ryedale, York- 
shire.) 
Per Maw. A name for the COMMON GULL and the KITTI- 
WAKE at Redcar, Yorkshire. 
PETRELL. Pennant gives this as a Flamborough name for the 
KITTIWAKE GULL. 
PrEeTRISEN. A Welsh name for the PARTRIDGE. 
PETRISEN GOESGOCH: The RED-LEGGED PARTRIDGE. 
(North Wales) lit. “‘red-legged partridge.” 
Petrycuars. (See Greater and Lesser Pettychaps.) 
PEWEEP or PrewirPE: The LAPWING. (Norfolk.) 
Pewir or Purr: The LAPWING. A common provincial name, 
imitative of its cry. 
PewirT or Pewit Gutt: The BLACK-HEADED GULL. From 
its cry. The first occurs in Willughby and the second in 
Pennant. It occurs as “ Puit” in Fuller’s ‘“ Worthies ” 
(p. 318). Peewit Gull is a present name for the species 
in North Wales. 
PHALAROE: The GREY PHALAROPE. (Yorkshire coast.) 
A corruption of Phalarope. 
PHEASANT [No. 466]. Mid. Eng. Fesaunt*and Fesaun, Fr. 
Faisan, from Lat. Phasianus. Originally introduced into 
Europe from the banks of the River Phasis, now Rioni, in 
Colchis. The name occurs in Turner (1544) as Phesan, and 
in Barlow’s plates (1655) as “ Feasant.”” Pheasant occurs 
in Merrett (1667), and also Willughby. Plot (1677) spells it 
“Phesant.” As regards its introduction into England 
nothing definite is known, except that the bird appears 
to have been known here before the Conquest, and Newton 
thinks that it must almost certainly have been brought 
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