POVEY—PURRE. 185 
name, however, for this bird is Pwffingen, but whether 
derived from the English name or whether it is the origin 
of the English name needs investigation. It occurs in 
Kay, or Caius (1570), as the “ Puphin or Pupin,” and he 
accounts for the name by remarking that “this bird our 
people call the Puphin, we say Pupin from its ordinary 
ery of ‘pupin.’” Albin, Edwards, Pennant and _ later 
writers call it the Puffin, which spelling is found in 
Willughby (1678), but that the name was not a general 
one in the latter writer’s day is shown by his referring to it 
as ‘“‘ the bird called Coulterneb ‘at the Farn Islands; Puffin 
in North Wales; in South Wales Gulden-head, Bottle-nose 
and Helegug; at Scarburgh, Mullet; in Cornwall, Pope; 
at Jersey and Guernsey, Barbalot.”” Swainson gives Puffin 
as an Antrim name for the RAZORBILL. 
Purriner. Albin gives it as a Farn Island name for the 
BLACK GUILLEMOT. 
PUFFIN OF THE IsLE oF Man: The MANX SHEARWATER. 
(Willughby.) 
PUFFIN OF THE IsLE oF WicHtT: The PUFFIN. (Edwards.) 
Pueey or Juecy WREN: The WREN. (West Surrey.) 
Puir: The BLACK-HEADED GULL. (Norfolk.) Found in 
King’s “‘ Vale Royall” (1656). From its note (see Pewit 
Gull). Also the LAPWING (East and South coasts), 
being a corruption of “ Pewit.” 
Pump-BORER: The LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
(Shropshire.) “‘ Because the noise it makes is like that 
produced by boring with an augur through hard wood ”’ 
(Swainson). 
PUPHIN or PupiIn: The PUFFIN. (Caius.) 
Purple Gallinule. Examples of this exotic species obtained in 
our islands are usually regarded as escaped birds. 
PURPLE HERON [No. 261]. The name is found in Jenyns 
(1835) and succeeding authors, and is derived from 
Linnzus’s name for the species (Ardea purpurea). Latham, 
Lewin, Walcott, Montagu and other old writers call it the 
‘“‘ African Heron.” It is the Purple-crested Heron of 
Bewick and the Crested Purple Heron of Selby. 
PURPLE SANDPIPER [No. 385]. The name is derived from 
the purplish gloss on the upper-parts, and is first found in 
Montagu (1802). It is the Selninger Sandpiper of Latham 
and Pennant, and the Purple or Rock Tringa of Selby. 
Purre. An old name for the DUNLIN in winter-plumage 
(Norfolk, Yorkshire.) Occurs in Willughby. 
