A dictionary of English and folk-names of British birds : with their history, meaning, and first usage, and the folk-lore, weather-lore, legends, etc., relating to the more familiar species / by H. Kirke Swann.

  • Harry Kirke Swann
Date:
1913
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Credit: A dictionary of English and folk-names of British birds : with their history, meaning, and first usage, and the folk-lore, weather-lore, legends, etc., relating to the more familiar species / by H. Kirke Swann. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Woopcock Snipe: The GREAT SNIPE. (Treland.) Woopcock Turusa: WHITE’S THRUSH is known by this name in Hampshire and elsewhere, partly on account of its frequenting the ground in woodlands, and partly on account of its variegated plumage and fair size. Woop-crRacKkER: The NUTHATCH. Occurs in Plot’s “Ox- fordshire ’’ (1677), who says it is an undescribed species, yet it occurs in Turner (1544) under the name of “ Nut- jobber,” and as Sitia was described by Aristotle. Woop Dove: The STOCK-DOVE. (Scotland.) Woop Grouse: The CAPERCAILLIE occurs under this name in many older authors (Pennant, Bewick, Montagu, etc.). Woop-Hack: The GREEN WOODPECKER. (Lincoln.) WoopD-KNACKER (== Wood-Knocker): The GREEN WOOD- PECKER. (Hampshire.) WOOD-LARK [No. 61]. The name occurs in Turner (1544) as *'Wodlerek,’”? and in Merrett as ‘‘ Wood-Lark,” also in Willughby as “‘ Woodlark.” Bolam states that Woodlark is also a Scots Border and Cheshire name for the TREE- PIP, ‘Woop Ow: The common TAWNY OWL isfrequently known by this name. WooprreckEeR: The TREECREEPER. (Ireland, Scotland.) Woopriz: The GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER. (Hamp- shire, Staffordshire.) So called from its pied plumage (see ‘Pie ”’). It is also a Somersetshire name for the GREEN WOODPECKER, according to Swainson. Woop-Picron. An alternative name for the RING-DOVE; in fact, in rather more general use than the latter, which is rather the written than the spoken name. The name is appropriate, from the bird’s partiality tc woods, but it is not infrequently used also to denote the STOCK-DOVE, hence tending to confusion, and for this reason the name Ring-Dove is to be preferred, although the authors of the “‘Hand-List”? have chosen Wood-Pigeon. Montagu gives it as a provincial name. Pigeon is from Fr. Pigeon. A Dorsetshire superstition is that pigeons’ feathers should never be used for beds: folks die hard on them. In Cornwall it is believed that one cannot die easily on a pillow stuffed with wild-birds’ feathers. Woop Qverst. An old name for the RING-DOVE. (Staffs., Dorsetshire, Ireland). There are several variations— Lyly has Wood Quist: ‘‘ Methought I saw a stock-dove
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