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applied to the male and female Swan would be of interest, and 

 we trust it may yet be supplied under " Pen." " Culver," the 

 old English name for pigeon, used by Chaucer and Spenser, 

 A.S.. culfre, is not mentioned. " Cushat " is given, though not the 

 etymology, A.S. cusccote, a wild pigeon. Ray (1691), quoting 

 Nicholson's * Glossarium,' gives " Coivshot palumbus." " Bull- 

 finch " of course is given, but not " Bullspink," a Yorkshire 

 name for the Chaffinch ; " Coppersmith " is given, but not 

 " Copper-finch," by which name the Chaffinch is known in 

 Cornwall. Nor do we find " Colly," a Blackbird in Somerset- 

 shire ; " Cuddy," Hedgesparrow, and Moorhen (Montagu); "Cur- 

 willet," Sanderling, " Crew," and " Cockathodon," names for the 

 Manx Shearwater in Scilly ; " Clinker," the Avocet in Norfolk ; 

 " Curlew-knave," the Whimbrel in Cumberland (cf. Household 

 Book of Lord William Howard of Naworth, 1612—1640); 

 "Eyess," " Gladdie," the Yellowhammer in Cornwall ; "Gutter- 

 cock," the Water Rail in Cornwall ; " Gosshatch," the female and 

 young of the Wheatear in Leicestershire (Evans) ; and " Hag- 

 gard," a hawk taken after it has moulted in a wild state. To the 

 name " Horn-pie " for the Lapwing might have been added 

 (p. 437) " Hornywink," in use in Cornwall. " Heath-cock " and 

 " Heath-hen " are given, but not " Heath-throstle." "I find," 

 says Dr. Lister, "that the Ring Ouzel is so called with us in 

 Craven, where there is everywhere in the moores plenty of 

 them."— Dr. Lister to John Ray, York, July 2, 1676. (See 

 Derham's Letters of Ray, 1718, p. 140.) The name "Hoop" 

 applied to the Bullfinch in Cornwall might have been given. It is 

 stated (p. 44) that " Blood-olph " is a not uncommon local name 

 for this bird ; but we have never met with it, although we have 

 been in almost every county in England. "Judcock" and 

 " Jetcock " for the Jack Snipe have perhaps been omitted 

 accidentally, for these are much commoner names than the last 

 mentioned. 



These examples of " missing words " are those which have 

 occurred to us offhand on looking through the Dictionary from A 

 to J. The author will doubtless shelter himself behind the opening 

 lines of his Prefatory Note, wherein he expressly remarks : — 

 " Those who may look into this book are warned that they will 

 not find a complete treatise on Ornithology, any more than an 

 attempt to include in it all the names under which Birds, even 



