260 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
Woopcock SnipE: The GREAT SNIPE. (Treland.) 
Woopcock TurusH: WHITE’S THRUSH is known by this 
name in Hampshire and elsewhere, partly on account of 
its frequenting the ground in woodlands, and partly on 
account of its variegated plumage and fair size. 
Woop-cRAcKER: The NUTHATCH. Occurs in Plot’s “Ox- 
fordshire ” (1677), who says it is an undescribed species, 
yet it occurs in Turner (1544) under the name of “ Nut- 
jobber,” and as Sitia was described by Aristotle. 
Woop Dove: The STOCK-DOVE. (Scotland.) 
Woop Grouse: The CAPERCAILLIE occurs under this name 
in many older authors (Pennant, Bewick, Montagu, etc.). 
Woop-HAack: The GREEN WOODPECKER. (Lincoln.) 
Woob-KNACKER (== Wood-Knocker): The GREEN WOOD- 
PECKER. (Hampshire.) 
WOOD-LARK [No. 61]. The name ocews in Turner (1544) as 
‘** Wodlerck,” and in Merrett as ‘‘ Wood-Lark,” also in 
Willughby as ‘ Woodlark.” Bolam states that Woodlark 
is also a Scots Border and Cheshire name for the TREE- 
PIPrTr: 
‘Woop Ow.: The common TAWNY OWL isfrequently known 
by this name. 
WooprEcKER: The TREECREEPER. (Ireland, Scotland.) 
WoopprrE: The GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. (Hamp- 
shire, Staffordshire.) So called from its pied plumage (see 
“Pie ”’). It is also a Somersetshire name for the GREEN 
WOODPECKER, according to Swainson. 
Woop-Picron. An alternative name for the RING-DOVE; 
in fact, in rather more general use than the latter, which is 
rather the written than the spoken name. The name is 
appropriate, from the bird’s partiality to woods, but it is 
not infrequently used also to denote the STOCK-DOVE, 
hence tending to confusion, and for this reason the name 
Ring-Dove is to be preferred, although the authors of 
the ‘‘Hand-List’? have chosen Wood-Pigeon. Montagu 
gives it as a provincial name. Pigeon is from Fr. Pigeon. 
A Dorsetshire superstition is that pigeons’ feathers should 
never be used for beds: folks die hard on them. In Cornwall 
it is believed that one cannot die easily on a pillow stuffed 
with wild-birds’ feathers. 
Woop QvueEst. An old name _ for the RING-DOVE. 
(Staffs., Dorsetshire, Ireland). There are several variations— 
Lyly has Wood Quist: “‘ Methought I saw a stock-dove 
