Golden Plover. Whistling Plover. Lapwing. Pee-weep ; Horn-pie * (Forby).
Ring Dotterel. Stone-runner; Dot- plover.
Turnstone. Tangle-pecker.
"Tangle " is used on the Norfolk coast as the name of the broad dark sea-weed beset with small bladders.
Oystercatcher. Sea-pie ; Dickie-bird.
Heron. Harn or Hern; Harnsey ; Frank.
The last name from the note.
Common Bittern. Bitour (Sir T. Browne); Bottle-bump (Forby).
Spoonbill. Shovelard (Sir T. Browne).
An ancient and now obsolete name, another form of which was " Shullard."
Avocet. Shoeing-horn (Sir T. Browne).
Whimbrel. May -bird ; Half -bird ; Half-curlew ; Spowe.
The first name probably from the season of the bird's arrival ; the last a name applied to it in the Household Accounts of the L'Estranges of Hunstanton in the sixteenth century, but now obsolete.
Bartailed Godwit. Pick.
Black- tailed Godwit. Shrieker (Lub- bock).
Green Sandpiper. Summer Snipe ; Martin Snipe (Lubbock).
Knot. Gnat or Knat ; Knet.
Whooper Wild Swan. Elk (Sir T. Browne).
Brent Goose. Brant.
Sheldrake. Bargander (Sir T. Browne); Bay Duck (Forby); Burrow Duck.
Shoveller. Spoonbeak or Spoonbill; Beck (Lubbock) ; Popeler.
The last an ancient name attri- buted to this duck, but now obsolete.
Pintail. Sea Pheasant.
Wigeon. Smee.
Garganey. Summer Teal.
Pochard. Poker ; Dun bird.
Scaup. Grey-back.
Tufted Duck. Black Poker (Lub- bock).
Golden-eye. Battle-wing.
Scoter. Black Duck ; Sea Duck.
Long-tailed Duck. Mealy-bird.
Red-throated Diver. Sprat-loon; Mag-loon (i. e. Magpie-loon).
Great Crested Grebe. Loon.
Little Grebe. Dabchick ; Didapper; Dive-an-dop ; Divy-duck.
Puffin. Parrot-bill; Sea Parrot.
Foolish Guillemot. Willock ; Willy.
Gannet. Herring Gant.
Common Tern. Great Pearl.
Lesser Tern. Small Pearl; Dip-ears.
Brown-headed Gull. Scoulton Pie ; Scoulton Peewit; Peewit Gull.
Kittiwake Gull. Sea Eitty.
Great Black-backed Gull. Saddle- back.
Gulls generally, especially the larger sorts. Cob.
Gulls generally, especially the smaller sorts. Mow ; Sea-mow.
Many of these names have come under my personal observation, whilst others have been recorded and communicated to me by my friend Mr. F. Norgate and my son, Mr. J.H. Gurney, jun. To these I have added some names taken from Sir T. Browne's notes on Norfolk Birds (temp. Charles II.); from Lubbock's 'Fauna of Norfolk'; from Forby's 'Vocabulary of East Anglia'; and from a few other published sources, including a paper by the Rev. H. T. Frere, which will be found in the first series of ' The Zoologist,' p. 2186. — J.H. Gurney (Northrepps Hall, near Cromer).
Apparently meaning a pied bird with a crest like a horn.
