518 aUERNSEY DIALECT NAMES. 



Canard. Duck. 



Mouailli coum des canards. (Metivicr). 

 Wet as ducks. 

 Carabin. Mrtivioi- says this is "lo uoui d'un oisoau de rivage dans I'lle 

 (rAureg-uy." lArr. Tourtel tolls mo it moans a small or younj? gull. • 



Cardrounette. (Goldfinch. 



D6s que I'temps s'ass'tcmbrie a' vient 

 Sus nos cardons, la cardrounette, 

 Et joyaeuse a' chante. (Metivicr). 

 As soon as the weather becomes autumnal, the Goldfinch comes to oiir 

 thistles, and sings merrily. 



Coiraquet. Dunlin. 

 Corbe. Black Scoter. 

 Copbin. Crow. 



A vee sa jaue, 1 r'semblle qu'les corbins 

 L'ont 6grimaie en fouillant d'bec et d'grins. (Corbet). 

 To see his cheek, it seems the crows have scored it, scratchhig with 

 beak and claws. 



Cormaran. Cormorant. 



L'cormaran su la maire endormio. 



Lent, triste et muet, vole en large et en long. (Metivicr). 



The cormorant, slow, sad and silent flies far and wide across the 

 sleeping sea. 



CoueOU. Cuckoo. 



Quand I'orge epie, I'coucou s6n va. (Proverb). 

 When the barley comes into ear the cuckoo departs. 

 Courli. Curlew. 

 Crax. Stonechat. 



Je me leve au chant du crax, me, d6s que I'soleil lliet. (Oidlbert). 

 I rise at the stonechat's song, as soon as the sun begins to shine. 



Crax a bianehe eoue. Wheatear. 



Arrives at the latter end of ftLarch, hence the proverb at the Vale : 

 Quand tu ve les crax a bianehe coue, il est temps qu'les patates tardives 

 saient pllantaies. (When you see the wlieatears it is time your late 

 potatoes were planted.) 



D'mouaiselle. Willow Wren. 



La d'mouaiselle a fait sa nichie 

 Dans I'pertu d'la chouque h6bergie. (Mctivier). 

 Hidden in the hole of the stump, the willow wren has hatched her 

 brood. 



Eearon. Tern. 



Eeouflle. Kestrel. 



L'ecouflle vient, s'envole et crie, 

 La poule en deul ve I'poulet prins. (Metivicr). 

 The kestrel comes, flies off and screams ; the sorrowing hen sees her 

 chicken seized. 



Eng'OUlvent. Goatsucker or Nightjar. 



L'engoulvent enaque I's hann'tons. (Metivicr). 

 The goatsucker snaps up the cockchafers. 

 Epervier. Sparrowhawk. 



J'ai oui criair, s'precipitant des nues, 

 Tyrans des airs, l'ecouflle et I'epervier. (Metivicr). 

 I have heard them screem, in darting from the clouds, those tyrants 

 of the air, the kestrel and the sparrowhawk. 



EpUuque-poumieP. Long-tailed Tit, and also the Tree Creeper. Liter- 

 ally, Apple-tree picker, from the habit of these little birds of running up 

 and down the branches of trees in search of insects. 



