264 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
Yarn or YERN: The COMMON HERON. (Cheshire.) Prob- 
ably a corruption cf heron. 
YARRELL. The adult male RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 
(Northumberland.) 
YARWHELP, YARDKEEP, or YARWIP: The BAR-TAILED 
GODWIT. Fromitsecry. Occursin Willughby. Yarwhelp 
is also a Norfolk name for the AVOCET ; and is apparently 
applied to denote a point of resemblance to the true 
Yarwhelp. 
Yaur or WHaup: The AVOCET. (Norfolk). A term equiva- 
lent to Curlew. Swainson also gives it as a Renfrew name 
for the BLUE TITMOUSE. 
YopFRAN. The Welsh name for the ROOK; lit. ‘ corn-crow.”’ 
YELDRIN : The YELLOW BUNTING in some parts of Scotland. 
YELDROcK: The YELLOW BUNTING. (Northumberland, 
Yorks.) 
YELLOw AmMER: The YELLOW BUNTING. (Provincial.) 
Also Yellow amber or Yellow omber (Salop). Ammer 
seems to be cognate with Germ. Ammer, a Bunting. Swain- 
son thinks it is from A.Sax. Amore, a small bird, the prefix 
“Yellow” referring to the general yellow tint of the 
plumage. He gives Yellow Amber or Yellow Omber as a 
Shropshire name. 
YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO [No. 215 American Yellow-billed 
Cuckoo]. Occurs in Yarrell (Ist ed.) as Yellow-billed 
American Cuckoo. This is a North American species 
recorded as a straggler to the British Islands. 
YELLOW-BREASTED BUNTING [No. 46]. A Siberian 
species having the breast bright yellow, with a chestnut 
band. 
YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER |[No. 127]. A _ Siberian 
species of Willow Warbler, so called from its pronounced 
yellowish-white superciliary stripe. It is the Dalmatian 
Regulus of Gould and Yarrell. 
YELLOW BUNTING [No. 43]. Usually known as the Yellow- 
hammer. The name occurs in Merrett and Willughby as 
*Yellow-hammer:” Turner (1544) has “ Yelow ham.” 
Pennant (1766) calls it Yellow hammer, but in the later 
editions it appears as Yellow Bunting, as also in the works 
of most of his successors, Yellow hammer being specified by 
Montagu as a provincial name. Yarrell (1st ed.) renders it 
“Yellow Bunting or Yellow Ammer.” 
