244 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
VirGIntian Cuckoo: The YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO. 
(Eyton.) 
VIRGINIAN PARTRIDGE: The Virginian Colin. (Jenyns.) 
WazcG: The KITTIWAKE GULL. (Shetlands.) “ Diminutive 
of (Kitti)wake ” (Swainson). 
WaGEL or Cornish Wacet: The ARCTIC SKUA or the 
GREAT BLACK-BACKED GULL. Newton remarks that 
Ray and Willughby got it in 1662 on Godreve Island, near 
St. Ives. The Arctic Skua seems to have been meant, 
but they took it to be the young of the Great Black- 
backed Gull, for which Wagel is still a Yorkshire name. 
Waerait: The PIED WAGTAIL generally. The name occurs 
in the fifteenth century, according to Wright, as Wagsterd 
and Wagstyrt (from steort=tail). Montagu gives it as a 
provincial name for the DUNLIN. 
Watt Brrp: The SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. (South and 
east England.) 
Watt-cHat: The STONECHAT (Provincial); the SPOTTED 
FLYCATCHER (N. Yorks.). 
WALLCREEPER [No. 85]. A south Kuropean species, which 
is known to have been taken four times in England. The 
name occurs first in Merrett’s list (1667) as a British species, 
and also in Willughby, who observes that the bird is said 
to be found in England. 
Watt Rosin: The SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. (Cheshire.) 
WARBLER. The name was first used by Pennant (“ Gen. Birds,” 
1773, p. 35) for the birds removed to genus Sylvia by 
Scopoli, from Linneeus’s genus Motacilla. 
WaRkE-GoosE: The BRENT GOOSE. (Durham.) So called 
from its feeding on “‘ ware,”’ which is coarse seaweed thrown 
up on the beach (A.Sax. Sewar, lit. sea-weed). 
WasHpDISsSH, WASHTAIL, or WASHERWOMAN: The PIED WAG- 
TAIL is locally so called (see Dishwasher). ‘“‘ War- 
winckle” in Latham’s “ Falconry ” (1633, vol. m1, p. 144) 
is thought by Newton to apply to the same bird. 
WaTER BiAckBIRD: The DIPPER. (Yorks., Scotland and 
Treland.) 
WateER-CoLtty: The DIPPER. (Somersetshire) lit. “‘ water- 
blackbird ” (see Colly). 
WATER CRAKE: The DIPPER. (Willughby.) The name is 
also applied to the SPOTTED CRAKE. 
