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TREE-SPARROW [No. 41]. So called from its habit of nesting 
chiefly in boles of trees. The name appears to be first 
found in Montagu (1802). It is the Mountain Sparrow or 
Finch of many older authors from Albin to Bewick, probably 
so called from the name Passer montana, under which it 
appears in Willughby and Ray. It appears to be the 
Hamburg Grosbeak of Latham, and the Hamburg Tree- 
Creeper and Red-headed Sparrow of Albin. 
TREE-SPEILER or BARK-SPEILER: The TREENCREEPER. 
(Scotland.) Speiler signifies climber. 
TREE-WIDDLE. Occurs in Albin for a species of Stint or 
Sanderling. 
TRESGLEN. A Welsh name for the MISTLE-THRUSH ; lit. 
** screech,” from its loud song. 
TRESGLEN GocH: The REDWING. (North Wales) lit. “red 
thrush.” 
TREUN RE TREUN. A Gaelic name for the LAND-RAIL. 
TrRIcKER: The WREN. (Thirsk, Yorks.) 
TRILLACHAN: The OYSTERCATCHER. (Hebrides.) Occurs 
in Martin’s “ Voyage to St. Kilda.” 
Tringa: The PURPLE SANDPIPER. (Northumberland.) 
Bolam gives it as a local name at Boulmer. 
TrincA CURLEW: The CURLEW-SANDPIPER. 
TRIOLLACHAN TRAIGH. A Gaelic name for any of the smaller 
shore birds (lit. “little quaverers of the shore ’’). 
TROCHWR Y LLYN. A Welsh name for the DIPPER. 
TROCHYDD BRONGOCH (Y): The RED-BREASTED MER- 
GANSER. (North Wales) lit. “the red-breasted plunger.” 
TRocHYDD G@wppGFocH: The RED-THROATED DIVER. 
(North Wales) lit. “‘red-throated diver.” 
TRocHYDD MAwR: The GREAT NORTHERN DIVER (North 
Wales) lit. “‘ great diver.” 
TRODZHEN or EpHNOW-TRopzHAN. Cornish names for the 
STARLING. 
TROELLWR: The NIGHTJAR. (North Wales) lit. “‘ spinner,” 
from its churring note. 
TROELLWR BACH (yy): The GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER. 
(North Wales) lit. “‘ the little spinner,” from its song. 
Troet. A Cornish name for the TURTLE-DOVE; also a 
Plover. 
TRUMPETER Swan. See American Trumpeter Swan. 
Trumei1E: The ARCTIC SKUA. (Orkneys.) 
