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GLOSSARY 



Vare Wigeon : the Smew 

 Velvet Runner : the Water-Rail 



Wagell : the young of the Great 



Black-backed Gull 

 Wall Hick : the Lesser Spotted 



Woodpecker 

 Wash-dish and Washerwoman : 



the Pied Wagtail 

 Water-hen : the Moor-hen 

 Crow, the Dipper 

 Junket : the Common Sand- 

 piper 

 Ouzel or Dipper 

 Sparrow : the Sedge War- 

 bler 

 Tie : the Wagtail 

 Wagtail : the Pied Wagtail 

 Waxen Chatterer or Waxwing 

 Wease-alley : the Skua 

 Weasel Coot : the young Smew 



„ Duck : the Smew 

 Weet-weet : the Common Sand- 

 piper 

 Wellplum : the Red-headed Po- 

 chard 

 Whaup : the Curlew 

 Whautie : the Whitethroat 

 Wheel-bird, or Wheeler : the 



Nightjar 

 Wheety-why : the Whitethroat 

 Winthrush : the Redwing 

 Whit-ile, i.e. Whittle : the Green 



Woodpecker 

 Whewer : the Wigeon 

 Whey-bird : the Whitethroat 

 Whilk : the Scoter 

 Whim : the Wigeon 

 Whimbrel or May-bird 

 Whin Linnet : the Common 



Linnet 

 Whistling Plover : the Golden 



Plover 

 Whistling Swan : the Whooper 



Swan 

 White Baker : the Spotted Fly- 

 catcher 



White-breasted Blackbird : the 



Ring or Water Ouzel 



„ -faced Duck : the Pochard 



„ Tinch : the Chaffinch 



„ -headed Goosander : the 



Smew 

 „ -headed Cormorant : the 



Common Cormorant 

 „ -headed Harpy : the Moor 



Buzzard 

 „ Nun : the Smew 

 „ -spot Cormorant : the 



Common Cormorant 

 „ -tail : the Wheatear 

 „ -Winged Black Duck : the 

 Velvet Scoter 



Whitterick : the Curlew 



Whitty-beard : the Whitethroat 



Whitwall and Witwall : the Green 

 Woodpecker 



Wierangel : the Ash-coloured 

 Shrike 



Willock and Willy : the Guille- 

 mot 



Willow-biter : the Tomtit 



Willywicket : the Common Sand- 

 piper 



Windhover and Windfanner : the 

 Kestrel 



Windle, Winnard, and Wind- 

 thrush : the Redwing 



Wing-coverts : several rows of 

 feathers covering the basal part 

 of the quills above and below, 

 and called the upper and under 

 wing-coverts ; the feathers out- 

 side these are called the lesser 

 wing-coverts 



Winglet : a process arising from 

 near the base of the terminal 

 joint of the wing, answering 

 to the thumb in the human 

 hand 



Winnel and Windle-Straw : the 

 Whitethroat 



Winter-bonnet : the Common Gull 

 ,, Duck : the Pintajl Duck 



