234 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
whistle which the bird often utters, resembling the sound 
of the pipe used by the swineherds of old when collecting 
the animals under their charge.” 
Swine-DEvIL: The SWIFT. (Northumberland.) 
Swiss SanpPrpER: The GREY PLOVER. Swainson says it 
was so called because Reaumur first received specimens 
from Switzerland. 
Sycock: The MISTLE-THRUSH. (Notts., Derbyshire.) 
SYKES’S WAGTAIL [No. 75]. A West Siberian species first 
recorded for Britain by Butterfield in the ‘‘ Zoologist”’ for 
1902, p. 232. 
SywipER. A Welsh name for the WILLOW-WARBLER. 
TABBERER, TAPPERER, or TAPPER: The LESSER SPOTTED 
WOODPECKER. (Leicestershire.) 
TaEL DUIK (=Teal duck): The TEAL. (Scotland.) 
TaceyFincH: The CHAFFINCH. (Upton-on-Severn.) 
Tame Swan: The MUTE SWAN. 
TamMiE Hert: The COMMON HERON. (Perth.) 
TamMiE Norte: The PUFFIN. (Orkney and Shetland.) 
TANGLE-PickER: The TURNSTONE. (Norfolk.) Tangle is 
a kind of seaweed. 
Tana Sparrow: The ROCK-PIPIT. (Shetlands.) ‘“‘ Tang” 
signifies seaweed. 
Tanc-WuHaap or Tang WHaup: The WHIMBREL. (Orkney 
and Shetland) lit. ‘“‘ seaweed curlew.” 
TaRAD-Y-KoEpD. A Cornish name for a WOODPECKER. 
TaRMACHAN. The Gaelic name for the PTARMIGAN. 
TaRROcK, TARRET, TaRrnG : The COMMON TERN. (Shetlands.) 
TaRROocK GULL or TARROCK. Properly the immature KITTI- 
WAKE GULL, but also applied to the young of the 
COMMON GULL and also to the COMMON GUILLEMOT. 
It occurs in Willughby for the first-named species. The 
bird described under this name was formerly considered 
a distinct species from the Kittiwake Gull. 
Tarry : The COMMON and ARCTIC TERNS. (Northumber- 
land.) 
TARTAN-BACK. A name for the BRAMBLING. (Hett.) 
Taster : The BLACK GUILLEMOT. (Sibbald.) See Tystie. 
TaTLER: The COMMON SANDPIPER. 
Tawny: The BULLFINCH. (Somerset.) 
