80 Cordeaux: Linota extlipes at Skeffling, Holderness. 
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correct for each part of it. Thus, though Miss Armitt says 
that ‘Bessie Douker’ is universal and the only name known for 
the Dipper, that bird was never called anything else here than 
‘Water Craa,’ and the name is still generally used among boys, 
although I found ‘ Water Ouzel’ put for it in one of the lists 
I spoke of. Again, the Grey Wagtail is most commonly known | 
here as the ‘ Yellow Willy,’ while its congener the Pied bie dye 
is called the ‘Grey Willy.’ For the last bird the name ‘ Dish- 
washer’ was given in one of the lists, but on questioning the boy 
who wrote it,-he told me that the name was given to him by 
‘one of his play ‘mates, a newcomer to the village, so that 
ingyen it is an imported designation. a 
a-smoor’ used to be a name for the Whitethroat ; and 
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Meadow Pipit. One must remember, however, that boys are 
by no means scientific in their ornithology, and that sometimes 
the same species bears two distinct names, while in other cases 
two or three distinct birds are lumped by them under one name; 
whenever, on the one hand, great variation of eggs and nesting 
place is found in the case of individuals of the same species, or, 
on the other, birds nearly resemble each other in appearance 
and there is no decided difference in the eggs and nest. : 
Long-tailed Tit is always called here ‘the Long-tailed Chitteren 
Magpie ’—all one name. 
Among the Staveley bird-names not referred to above, or 
unmentioned in Miss Armitt’s paper, are the following :— 
‘ Bessie,’ Yellowhammer. 
‘Grey Linnet,’ Common Linnet. 
‘Yellow Linnet,’ Greenfinch. 
‘Jammy’ or ‘Jammy Longlegs,’ Heron. 
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NOTE—ORNITHOLOGY. 
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