Lapwing. Tee-wheet.
I have also heard this bird named the Shochan by shepherds and keepers who were natives of, or had resided in, the Highlands. I believe it is the Gaelic name of the Lapwing.
Oystercatcher. Sea-pyet.
Common Heron. Craigie, and some- times Jenny Heron.
Craig is an old Scotticism for throat, and probably the bird has been so named on account of its long neck.
Bittern (nearly extinct in this county now). Bog-drum.
Common Curlew. Whaup.
In country houses when children have been whistling, I have heard their parents order them to "stop their whaupin."
Common Sandpiper. Kittineedie.
Snipe. Heather-bleater.
Dunlin. Purre.
Landrail. Corn-crake.
Waterhen. Stankie.
In this district a still deep piece of water is called a stank.
Coot. Bald Coot.
Sheldrake. Stock-annet.
Teal. Jay-teal.
Cormorants. Coiv'en Elders, and in Wigtonshire Mochrum Elders.*
Tern. Sea Swallows.
Black-headed Gull. In the eastern parishes of this county this bird is known as Collochan Gull, from the name of a loch where it breeds in some thousands.
Common Gull. Sea Maw or Mar.
Herring Gull. Cat-gull.
These gulls are detested by the keepers, and have probably earned their name and cha- racter by their cat-like depre- dations amongst the newly- hatched young birds and eggs on the moors.
—Robert Service (Corberry Hill, Maxvvelltown, N.B.).
Yorkshire, West Riding.—As supplementary to my list of provincial names used in this district (p. 331), I may add the following:—
Mole. Mouldwarp.
Rat. Ratton.
Whinchat. Hay-chat.
Stone-loach. Tommy-loach.
Millers-thumb. Bull-head.
Lizards and Newts. Askers.
Tadpole. Bull-head.
Ladybird. Cow-lady.
Cockroach. Black-clock.
Dragonfly. Horsetang.
Doubtless a corruption of " Horse- stinger," from its supposed habit of stingiug horses.
Tortoiseshell and Red Admiral But- terflies. Scotch Nannies.
Cranefly. Tom-spinner and Daddy Longlegs.
—G.T. Porritt (Highroyd House, Hudderstield).
Colvend (pronounced Cow'en by the natives) is a coast parish much frequented by these birds, and Mochrum is a loch where one of their great breeding-places is situated. Perhaps their present appellation was bestowed on the Cormorants by our Presbyterian forefathers in the days when the Kirk Session held supreme sway in rural places, and might be one way in which the people showed their dislike to its somewhat inquisitorial functions.
