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or wood quist” (‘‘Sapho and Phaon”’). In Wiltshire it 
becomes Quisty, and elsewhere it is Queest (q.v.). 
WOOD-SANDPIPER [No. 389]. The name is found in Pennant 
and succeeding authors to Yarrell. 
Woop Surike: The WOODCHAT SHRIKE. (Fleming.) 
Woop-spiTE or Woop-spack: The GREEN WOODPECKER. 
(Norfolk, Suffolk.) Occurs in Willughby (1678). The 
original form of the word seems to be Woodspeight. 
Woop-suckER : The GREEN WOODPECKER. (New Forest.) 
Woop Turusu: The MISTLE-THRUSH. (Dumfries.) 
Woop Tirmovuse: The GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. Mon- 
tagu says that this species was so-called in Cornwall. The 
name also occurs in Willughby, who says it is the GOLDEN- 
CRESTED WREN. 
WoopwatL: The GREEN WOODPECKER. (Somersetshire.) 
WOOD-WARBLER [No. 125]. The name is first found as 
Wood Wren in the Linnean “ Trans.,” 11, p. 245. Up to 
Fleming (1842) it was generally called Wood Wren, but 
Yarrell (1843) inserted it under the name of Wood Warbler. 
It is the Green Wren of Albin, the Yellow Willow Wren 
of Bewick, the Yellow Woodwren of Macgillivray, and the 
East Woodhay Warbler of Rennie’s ed. (1833) of White’s 
Selborne. 
Woop Wren. See WOOD-WARBLER. 
WooreL: The BLACKBIRD. (Drayton’s “ Polyolbion.’’) 
Wootert : The BARN-OWL. (Salop.) A corruption of Howlet. 
Wran: The WREN. (In parts of Ireland and Scotland.) 
Wrannock: The WREN. (Orkneys.) 
Wranny: The WREN. (Cornwall.) 
WREN [No. 189, WREN; No. 190, St. Kilda Wren; 
No. 191, Shetland Wren]. The name “Wren” 
occurs in Turner (1544), and in Merrett’s list (1667). It 
is from A.Sax. wrenna, from wrene=lascivious, in Dan. 
vrinsk=proud, Swedish vrensk=uncastrated. How it came 
to be popularly supposed more recently to be peculiarly 
feminine is not readily appacent :— 
The Robin and the Wren 
Are God’s cock and hen. 
is an old and widely-accepted belief, and the idea that the 
two mate is still seriously held by some uninformed indi- 
viduals. The same idea is apparent in such names as 
“ Kitty Wren.” 
