LAKELAND BIRD-NAMES. 
Miss MARY L. ARMITT, 
Ambleside, Westmorland. 
Loca. bird-names—especially such as are dying out—are only 
slowly acquired by the stranger, and the few following are 
all I have met with that belong properly to Lakeland :— 
Redstart. ‘Jennie Redtail.’ 
Fieldfare. ‘Feldfar’ or ‘Fieldfaw.’ Redwing. ‘ Redbreast.’ 
Wren. ‘Chittie,’ also (less known) ‘Chittaway Wren.’ 
Willow-Warbler. ‘Miller-thumb.’ Nightjar. ‘Night-hawk.’ 
Whitethroat. ‘Peggy Whitethroat.’ Magpie* ‘ Pyat.’ 
Starling. ‘Shepster.’ Lapwing. ‘Tewit.’ 
Woodpigeon. ‘Cushat.’ Chaffinch. ‘Spink.’ 
Long-tailed Titmouse. ee ae ‘Magpie.’ 
Swift. ‘ Deviling’—pronounced ‘ Dievi 
Tree-Creeper.. ‘ Woodpecker.’ 
Dipper. : aoe Douker.’ This is universal, and no other 
name is know 
Grey W ee eee Wagtail.” Applied only to the 
wagtail ‘about the becks. 
Ring-Ouzel. i Creiticcostin® Probably a native pronun- 
ciation of Crag-Ouzel. 
There is also the ‘Crag-hawk,’ apparently the Kestrel. 
few—‘ Strawsmar,’ pronounced ‘Stréasmer,’ which, from the 
description given by a farmer from Grizedale, in Lancashire, 
appears to apply to the Garden-Warbler; and ‘Scobbie,’ 
for the Chaffinch. This latter name, furnished me by a 
friend, was confirmed by a very old woman, who spoke of 
it having been in general use in Cumberland when she was 
a child. It is known also in Wray, by Windermere, I am told. 
Besides the Titlark and the Skylark, there is a bird called 
the ‘Ground Lark,’ of uncertain definition. I fear it is not 
the Tree Pipit, though it would be satisfactory to prove it so, 
and to know that a bird so abundant on the fell-slopes, and so 
generous of its beautiful strains, has not been left unrecognised 
and unnamed by the people. 
The Goldfinch, once much more numerous than now, has 
a name, ‘Pear-tree Flinch,’ from the Pear tree, like the 
Sycamore, being a favourite nesting-tree with it. 
have found ‘Stone-check,’ pronounced ‘Stéan-check,’ 
applied to both Wheatear and Whinchat, though by different men. 
Naturalist, _ 
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