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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    Yarn or YERN: The COMMON HERON. (Cheshire.) Prob- ably a corruption of heron. YARRELL. The adult male RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. (Northumberland.) YARWHELP, YARDKEEP, or YARWIP: The BAR-TAILED GODWIT. Fromitscry. Occursin Willughby. Yarwhelp is also a Norfolk name for the AVOCET ; and is apparently applied to denote a point of resemblance to the true Yarwhelp. Yaup or WHauP: The AVOCET. (Norfolk). A term equiva- lent to Curlew. Swainson also gives it as a Renfrew name for the BLUE TITMOUSE. YpDFRAN. The Welsh name for the ROOK; lit. “ corn-crow.” YELDRIN: The YELLOW BUNTING in some parts of Scotland. YELDROocK: The YELLOW BUNTING. (Northumberland, Yorks.) YELLOw AmMER: The YELLOW BUNTING. (Provincial.) Also Yellow amber or Yellow omber (Salop). Ammer seems to be cognate with Germ. Ammer, a Bunting. Swain- son thinks it is from A.Sax. Amore, a small bird, the prefix Yellow” referring to the general yellow tint of the plumage. He gives Yellow Amber or Yellow Omber as a Shropshire name. YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO [No. 216 American Yellow-billed Cuckoo]. Occurs in Yarrell (Ist ed.) as Yellow-billed American Cuckoo. This is a North American species recorded as a straggler to the British Islands. YELLOW-BREASTED BUNTING [No. 46]. A Siberian species having the breast bright yellow, with a chestnut band. | YELLOW-BROWED WARBLER [No. 127]. A _ Siberian species of Willow Warbler, so called from its pronounced yellowish-white superciliary stripe. It is the Dalmatian Regulus of Gould and Yarrell. YELLOW BUNTING [No. 43]. Usually known as the Yellow- hammer. The name occurs in Merrett and Willughby as ‘'Yellow-hammer:” Turner (1544) has “ Yelow ham.” Pennant (1766) calls it Yellow hammer, but in the later editions it appears as Yellow Bunting, as also in the works of most of his successors, Yellow hammer being specified by Montagu as a provincial name. Yarrell (1st ed.) renders it “Yellow Bunting or Yellow Ammer.”
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