240 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
Tomtit. <A general provincial name for the BLUE TITMOUSE. 
Swainson also gives it as a Norfolk and Craven name for 
the WREN, and an Irish name for the TREECREEPER. 
TonevE Brrp or Lone TonevEe: The WRYNECK. (Pro- 
vincial.) From its long projectile tongue. 
Tony Hoop: The BULLFINCH. (Somersetshire.) Probably 
from its whistling note, but Swainson thinks it is from the 
tawny breast of the female. 
Took: The REDSHANK. From its note. 
Tore: The WREN. (Cornwall.) 
Tor OvuzeL: The RING-OUZEL. (Devonshire.) 
ToRTOISE-SHELL GOOSE: The WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE. 
(Ireland.) From the mottled markings on the abdomen 
(Swainson. ) 
Tot-o'ER-SEAS. Newton gives this as a local East Coast name 
for the GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN, in allusion to its 
arrival from overseas on the autumnal migration. It 
seems to be a Suffolk and perhaps a Norfolk name. 
Tounac. A Gaelic name for the MALLARD. (Western Isles.) 
From town, a wave. 
Towitty or Towwrtty: The SANDERLING. (Cornwall.) 
From its cry. Occurs as Towiller in Borlase. 
TrRANILLYS: The RING-PLOVER. (Hett.) 
TREE-CLIMBER: The TREECREEPER. (Provincial.) Tree- 
clipper is an Oxfordshire name. 
TREECREEPER |[No. 83, British ‘Treecreeper; No. 84, 
Northern ‘Treecreeper]. Occurs in most of our 
older authors as “Common Creeper.” It is the Certhia of 
Willughby and Ray. Pennant (1766) calls it “ Creeper ” 
simply. Ridgway has separated the resident British 
form from the North European form, examples of which 
have been identified in Scotland. 
TREE Fatcon: The HOBBY. (Willughby.) 
TREE Finco: The TREE-SPARROW. (Hett.) 
TREE GoosrE: The BARNACLE-GOOSE. (Bewick.) In refer- 
ence to the old legend. (See BARNACLE-GOOSE.) 
Tree Huckx-muck : The LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. (Hett.) 
TREE LarK: The TREE-PIPIT. (Notts, Yorks.) 
TrEE Macrre. A supposed variety of the MAGPIE. 
TREE-PIPIT [No. 67]. The name occurs in Selby (1825) and 
arises from its more arboreal habits than the MEADOQW- 
PIPIT. It is the “Pipit Lark” of Pennant, and the 
“Wield Lark ” of Montagu. 
