British Birds in Their Haunts

Part 41

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Icebird: the Little Auk Imber, or Great Northern Diver Isle of Wight Parson: the Cormorant Iris (_plural_, Irides): the coloured circle of the eye surrounding the pupil Isaac: the Hedge Sparrow Ivy Owl: the Barn Owl

Jack Curlew: the Whimbrel Jackdaw Jack-nicker: the Goldfinch " Saw: the Goosander " Snipe Jar Owl: the Night Owl Jay, Jay Pie, or Jay Pyet Jenny: the Wren Jid or Judcock: the Jack Snipe

Kadder and Kae: the Jackdaw Kamtschatka Tern: the Black Tern Katabella: the Hen Harrier Kate: the Hawfinch Katogle: the Eagle Owl Kiddaw: the Guillemot King-Harry: the Goldfinch Kip: the Tern Kirktullock: the Shoveler Kirmew and Kirmow: the Tern Knee: a name often given, though inaccurately, to the junction of the tarsus and tibia of a bird. Knot

Lamhi or Lavy: the Guillemot Land Curlew: the Great Plover Lary: the Guillemot Laughing Goose: the White-fronted Goose Lavrock: the Skylark Leg-bird: the Sedge Warbler Lesser wing-coverts: the feathers which overlie the greater wing-coverts, or those next the quills Ling-bird: the Meadow Pipit Linlet: a young Linnet Lobefoot: the Phalarope Long-tongue: the Wryneck Loom or Loon: the Diver Lore: the space between the beak and the eye Lough Diver: the Smew Lum, Lungy: the Guillemot Lumme: the Diver Lyre: the Manx Shearwater

Madge Howlet: the White Owl Maglowan: a name for the Divers Magpie Diver: the Smew Malduck, or Malmarsh: the Fulmar Mallemoke: the Fulmar Mandibles: upper and under, the two portions of a bird's bill Man-of-war bird: the Skua Manx Shearwater: the Manx Petrel Marketjew Crow: the Chough Marrot: the Guillemot and Razor-bill May-bird, or Mayfowl: the Whimbrel Mavis: the Thrush Meadow Crake, or Drake: the Gallinule " Pipit, Titlark or Titling Meggy-cut-throat: the Whitethroat Merlie: the Blackbird Mew or Mow: a Gull Millithrum: the Long-tailed Tit Minute Gallinule: the Little Crake " Merganser: the young Smew " Tringa: the Little Stint Mire Snipe: the Snipe Mistle Thrush, or Mistletoe Thrush Mitty: the Petrel Mock-bird: the Sedge Warbler " Nightingale: the Blackcap and Garden Warbler Monk: the Bullfinch Moor Blackbird, or Ouzel: the Ring Ouzel " Hen, or Water Hen Morrot: the Guillemot Moss-cheeper: the Meadow Pipit Mother Carey's Chickens: the Petrels Mountain Linnet: the Twite " Ouzel: the Ring Ouzel Mouse Hawk or Owl: the Hawk Owl Mow: a Gull Mud-plover: the Grey Plover Muggy: the Whitethroat Mullet: the Puffin Mum-ruffin: the Long-tailed Tit Murdering-bird: the Butcher-bird

Nape: the upper part of the neck behind Neck-a-pecker and Nickle: the Woodpecker Night-crow, or Night-hawk: the Nightjar " Heron Nope: the Bullfinch Norfolk Plover: the Great Plover Norie: the Cormorant Northern Crow: the Hooded Crow Norway Lark: the Snow Bunting Nun: the Blue Tit

Oke: the Auk Olive: the Oyster-catcher Olive-tufted Duck: the Goldeneye Operculum: a lid or covering Orbit: the skin that surrounds the eye, and in some birds is destitute of feathers Ouzel, Water, or Dipper Oven-bird: the Chiff-Chaff, Willow Warbler, and Wood Warbler Owl, Long-eared or Horned " Short-eared or Little-horned " Tawny or Brown

Padge and Padge Owl: the Barn Owl Palmipedes: Web-footed Birds Pandle-whew: the Wigeon Parasitic Gull: the Skua Parrot, Ailsa: the Puffin " Sea: the Puffin Parson Mew: the Black-backed Gull Passerine: belonging to the order Passeres " Warbler: the Garden Warbler Pea-finch: the Chaffinch Pearl: the Tern Pease Crow: the Tern Peck: the Bar-tailed Godwit Pectinated: cut like a comb Peese-weep: the Peewit, also sometimes given to the Greenfinch Peggy: the Wren, Whitethroat and the Garden Warbler Peggy cut-throat: the Whitethroat Petrel: the name Petrel is in some places given to the Godwit Pettychaps, Greater: the Garden Warbler " Lesser: the Chiff-chaff Philomel: the Nightingale Pianet: the Magpie, and Oyster-catcher Picarini: the Avocet Pick-cheese: the Tom-Tit and Great Tit Pickmire: the Black-headed Gull Picktarney and Picket: the Tern Pictarn: the Black-headed Gull Pie, Sea: the Oyster-catcher Pied Diver: the Smew " Wagtail " Wigeon: the Garganey, and Goldeye Pie-finch: the Chaffinch Pienet and Piet: the Magpie Piet, Water: the Water Ouzel Pigeon Hawk: the Sparrow Hawk " Mow, Red-legged: the Black-headed Gull in its winter plumage Pigmy Curloo, or Sandpiper Pine Bullfinch, or Pine Grosbeak Pink: the Chaffinch Pink-footed Goose Pinnock: a Tit Pint: the Laughing Gull Pintail Duck Pirenet: the Sheldrake Plover's Page: the Purple Sandpiper Pocker, or Poker: the Pochard Poke-Pudding: the Long-tailed Tit Pomarine Skua, or Gull, Twist-tailed Poor-willie: the Godwit Pop: the Redwing Pope: the Puffin Popinjay: the Green Woodpecker Port-Egmont Hen: the Common Skua Post-bird: the Spotted Flycatcher Primaries: the quills, usually ten, of the terminal joint of a bird's wing. Provence Furzel: the Dartford Warbler Proud-tailor: the Goldfinch Puckeridge: the Nightjar Pudding-poke: the Long-tailed Tit Puffin Puffinet: the Black Guillemot Purple Sandpiper Purre: the Dunlin Puttock: the Buzzard and Kite Pywipe: the Lapwing

Quaketail: the Wagtail Que: the Night Heron Queest or Quest: the Ring-dove Queet: the Coot and Guillemot Quills: the large feathers of the wing, called primary, or digital; secondary or cubital; and tertiary, or humeral; according as they arise from the terminal, middle, or inner joint Quill-coverts: a row of feathers immediately covering the base of the quills above and below, and therefore called upper and under Quinck: the Goose

Rafter-bird: the Spotted Flycatcher Rail, Land Rain-bird: the Green Woodpecker " -Goose: the Red-throated Diver Raptores: Birds of Prey Rasores: Gallinaceous Birds Rattle-wings: the Goldeneye Redcap: the Goldfinch Red Godwit: the Bar-tailed Godwit " Grouse Red-headed Linnet: the Common Linnet and Redpoll " Pochard: the Common Pochard " Wigeon: the Common Wigeon " Hoop: the Bullfinch " -legged Crow: the Chough " " Godwit: the Spotted Sandpiper " " Gull, the Black-headed Gull " " Partridge " -necked Coot-foot, Lobefoot, or Phalarope Red Sandpiper: the Knot in its summer plumage Redstart, Common " Black Red-throated Diver Red-winged Blackbird: Maize-bird, or Starling Reed-bird: the Sedge Warbler Reed Bunting: the Black-headed Bunting " Fauvette: the Sedge Warbler " Pheasant: the Bearded Tit " Sparrow: the Black-headed Bunting " Warbler or Wren Reeve: the female of the Ruff Richardson's Skua Richel Bird: the Lesser Tern Rind-tabberer: the Green Woodpecker Ring Blackbird: the Ring Ouzel " Dove Ringed Dotterel, or Plover " Guillemot " -necked or Great Northern Diver Ring-tailed Eagle: the Golden Eagle in its second year's plumage Rippock: the Tern Rochie: the Little Auk Rock-birds: the Auk, Puffin, and Guillemot " Dove, Rocker Dove, Rockier Dove " Hawk: the Merlin " Lark, or Pipit " Ouzel: the Ring Ouzel " Sandpiper: the Purple Sandpiper Rodge: the Gadwall Rood Goose, or Brent Goose Rose-coloured Ouzel, Pastor, Starling or Thrush " Linnet: the Redpoll, and Common Linnet Rotck, or Rotcke: the Little Auk Rothermuck: the Bernicle Goose Ruddock: the Redbreast, Robin Ruddy Goose, or Sheldrake " Plover: the Bar-tailed Godwit Ruff (female Reeve) Runner: the Water-Rail " Stone: the Ringed Plover

St. Cuthbert's Duck: the Elder St. Martin's Snipe: the Jack Snipe Sandcock: the Redshank Sanderling Sandsnipe: a Sandpiper Sandwich Tern Sandy-loo: the Ring Plover " Poker: the Pochard Sarcelle: the Long-tailed Duck Saw-bill: the Merganser Scale Drake: the Sheldrake Scallop-toed Sandpiper: the Phalarope Scammel: the Bar-tailed Godwit Scapulars: the feathers which rise from the shoulders and cover the sides of the back Scar Crow: the Black Tern Scarf and Scart: the Shag Scaurie: the Herring Gull Scooper: the Avocet Scotch Goose: the Brent Goose Scout: the Common Guillemot Scurrit: the Lesser Tern Scrabe: the Manx Shearwater Scraber: the Black Guillemot Scraye: the Tern Screamer and Screecher: the Swift Screech: the Missel-Thrush " Martin: the Swift " Owl: the Barn Owl Scull: the Skua Scuttock: the Guillemot Sea Crow: the Cormorant, and Black-headed Gull " Dotterel: the Turnstone " Hen: the Guillemot Sea Lark: the Rock Pipit and Ring Plover " Mall, Mew, or Mow: the Gull " Parrot: the Puffin " Pheasant: the Pintail Duck " Pie: the Oyster-catcher " Sandpiper: the Purple Sandpiper " Snipe: the Dunlin " Swallow: the Tern " Titling: the Rock Pipit " Turtle-dove: the Guillemot and Rotche " Wigeon: the Scaup " Woodcock: the Godwit Seaford Goose: the Brent Bernicle Secondaries: the quill-feathers arising from the second joint of the wing Sedge-bird, Sedge Warbler, or Sedge Wren Selninger Sandpiper: the Purple Sandpiper Serrator: the Ivory Gull Serrated: toothed like a saw Serrula: the Red-breasted Merganser Sheldapple: the Crossbill This name and "Shelly" are sometimes given to the Chaffinch Shepster: the Starling Shilfa: the Chaffinch Shoeing-horn: the Avocet Shore-bird: the Sand Martin " Pipit: the Rock Pipit Short-eared or -horned Owl Shrieker: the Black-tailed Godwit Shrimp-catcher: the Lesser Tern Shrite: the Missel Thrush Silvery Gull: the Herring Gull Skart: the Cormorant, and Shag Skein: a flight of Geese Skiddaw: the Guillemot Skiddy Cock, Skilty, or Skit: the Water-Rail Skite: the Yellow Hammer Skitty: the Spotted Crake Skrabe: the Black Guillemot Snake-bird: the Wryneck Snite: the Snipe Snow-bird: the Ivory Gull " -Bunting: Flake, or Fleck Snuff-headed Wigeon: the Pochard Solan, or Solent Goose: the Gannet Solitary Snipe: the Great Snipe Song Thrush: the Common Thrush Sparlm-fowl: the female Merganser Spectacle Duck: the Goldeneye Speculum: the bright feathers which form a kind of disc of the wing of the Ducks Speckled-bellied Goose: the White-fronted Goose " Diver: the young of the Great Northern Diver Spider-diver: the Dabchick Speney: the Petrel Spink: the Chaffinch Spoonbill, White Spotted-necked Turtle Dove: the Turtle Dove Sprat Loon, the young of the Great Northern Diver " Mew: the Kittiwake Gull Spurre: the Tern Standgale, or Stannel: the Kestrel Starling, Common, Stare, or Starenil Staynil: the Starling Steel Duck, Larger: the Goosander " " Lesser: the Merganser Stint: the Dunlin, or any similar bird, is often so called on the coast Stock-Dove Stonechacker or Stoneclink: Stonechat Stone Curlew: the Great Plover Stonegale: the Kestrel Stone Hawk: the Merlin " -smirch: the Wheatear Stork, White Storm Cock: the Missel Thrush " Petrel, or Storm Finch Straney: the Guillemot Summer Snipe: the Sandpiper " Teal: the Garganey " Duck, or Sheldrake: the Long-tailed Duck Sweet William: the Goldfinch Swiftfoot: the Courser Swimmer, Little: the Phalarope Swine-pipe: the Redwing

Tail-coverts: upper and under, feathers covering the basal portion of the tail feathers above and below Tailor, Proud: the Goldfinch Tammie Cheekie and Tammie Norie: the Puffin Tang-waup: the Whimbrel Tangle-picker: the Turnstone Taring, Tarrot: the Tern Tarrock: the young of the Kittiwake Gull Tarse: the male Falcon, a name used in falconry Tarsus: the bone of a bird's foot next above the toes. In a domestic fowl the tarsus is the portion between what is called the "drumstick" and the toes; the shank Tatler: a Sandpiper Teal Cricket: the Garganey Teaser: the Skua Teewit: the Peewit Tertiaries: the quills which spring from the third or inner joint of a bird's wing Thistlefinch: the Goldfinch Three-toed Sand-grouse Thrice-cock: the Mistle Thrush Throstle: the Thrush Tibia: the joint of a bird's leg next above the tarsus; the "drumstick." Tick: the Whinchat Tidley: the Wren Tinkershere, or Tinker's hue: the Guillemot Tippet Grebe: the Crested Grebe Titlark, and Titling: the Meadow Pipit " Sea: the Rock Pipit Tom Harry: the Skua Tom Pudding: the Dabchick Tommy Norie: the Puffin Tomtit: the Blue Tit Tonite: the Wood Warbler Tony Hoop: the Bullfinch Tope: the Wren Tor-Ouzel: the Ring Ouzel Towilly: the Sanderling Tree Pipit, or Lark " Sparrow " Sheeler: the Tree Creeper Tuchit: the Lapwing Plover Tufted Duck Tuliac: the Skua Turkey-bird: the Wryneck Turtle, Sea: the Guillemot and Ricke Twink: the Chaffinch Twit Lark: the Meadow Pipit Tystie: the Black Guillemot

Ulnia: the Tawny Owl Under tail-coverts: the feathers which overlap the base of the tail beneath Under wing-coverts: the feathers which cover the wings beneath Upper tail-coverts: the feathers which overlap the base of the tail above Upper wing-coverts: the feathers which overlap the base of the quills Utick: the Whinchat

Vare Wigeon: the Smew Velvet Runner: the Water-Rail

Wagell: the young of the Great Black-backed Gull Wall Hick: the Lesser Spotted Woodpecker Wash-dish and Washerwoman: the Pied Wagtail Water-hen: the Moor-hen " Crow, the Dipper " Junket: the Common Sandpiper " Ouzel or Dipper " Sparrow: the Sedge Warbler " Tie: the Wagtail " Wagtail: the Pied Wagtail Waxen Chatterer or Waxwing Wease-alley: the Skua Weasel Coot: the young Smew " Duck: the Smew Weet-weet: the Common Sandpiper Wellplum: the Red-headed Pochard Whaup: the Curlew Whautie: the Whitethroat Wheel-bird, or Wheeler: the Nightjar Wheety-why: the Whitethroat Winthrush: the Redwing Whewer: the Wigeon Whey-bird: the Whitethroat Whilk: the Scoter Whim: the Wigeon Whimbrel or May-bird Whin Linnet: the Common Linnet Whistling Plover: the Golden Plover Whistling Swan: the Whooper Swan White Baker: the Spotted Flycatcher White-breasted Blackbird: the Ring or Water Ouzel " -faced Duck: the Pochard " Tinch: the Chaffinch " -headed Goosander: the Smew " -headed Cormorant: the Common Cormorant " -headed Harpy: the Moor Buzzard " Nun: the Smew " -spot Cormorant: the Common Cormorant " -tail: the Wheatear " -winged Black Duck: the Velvet Scoter Whit-ile, i. e. Whittle: the Green Woodpecker Whitterick: the Curlew Whitty-beard: the Whitethroat Whitwall and Witwall: the Green Woodpecker Wierangel: the Ash-coloured Shrike Willock and Willy: the Guillemot Willow-biter: the Tomtit Willywicket: the Common Sandpiper Windhover and Windfanner: the Kestrel Windle, Winnard, and Wind-thrush: the Redwing Wing-coverts: several rows of feathers covering the basal part of the quills above and below, and called the upper and under wing-coverts; the feathers outside these are called the lesser wing-coverts Winglet: a process arising from near the base of the terminal joint of the wing, answering to the thumb in the human hand Winnel and Windle-Straw: the Whitethroat Winter-bonnet: the Common Gull " Duck: the Pintail Duck " -Gull, or Mew: the Common Gull in its winter plumage " Wagtail: the grey-headed Wagtail Witch: the Petrel Witwall: the Green Woodpecker Woodcock Owl: the Short-eared Owl " Sea: the Godwit " -Snipe: the Great Snipe Woodcracker: the Nuthatch Wood Grouse: the Capercaillie Woodpie: the Green Woodpecker Wood Sandpiper " Shrike Woodchat Woodspite, Woodwall, and Woodwele: the Green Woodpecker Wood Warbler, or Wren Writing Lark: the Bunting, so called from the markings of the eggs

Yaffil, Yaffle, Yaffler, Yappingale: the Green Woodpecker Yardkeep and Yarwhip: the Bar-tailed Godwit Yarwhelp: the Stone Plover and Godwit Yeldrin and Yeldrock: the Yellow Hammer Yellow legged Gull: the Lesser Black-backed Gull " Sandpiper: the young of the Ruff " Owl: the White Owl " Plover: the Golden Plover " Poll: the Wigeon " Warbler: the Willow Warbler " Yeldock, Yoit, Yoldrin and Yowley, the Yellow Hammer Yelper: the Avocet

INDEX OF BIRDS AND OF ILLUSTRATIONS

_The first numeral refers to the text, the second to the illustration facing the page named._

Auk, Little: 294; p. 291 Avocet: 252; p. 247

Bearded Reedling: 41; p. 46 Bee-eater: 135; p. 129 Bittern: 173; p. 231 Blackbird: 7; p. 3 Blackcap: 23; p. 17 Brambling: 97; p. 85 Bullfinch: 101; p. 97 Bunting, Cirl: 108; p. 108 " Corn (or common): 106; p. 108 " Lapland: 111; p. 108 " Reed: 109; p. 108 " Snow: 110; p. 108 " Yellow (Yellow Hammer): 107; p. 116 Burgomaster: _see_ Gull, Glaucous Bustard, Great: 236; p. 220 Buzzard, Common: 150; p. 149 " Honey: 151; p. 149 " Rough-legged: 151; p. 149

Capercaillie: 212; p. 220 Chaffinch: 95; p. 96 Chiff-chaff: 30; p. 30 Chough: 56; p. 59 Coot: 233; p. 231 Cormorant, Common: 165; p. 166 " Green: 167; p. 166 Courser, Cream-coloured: 240; p. 262 Crake, Corn: 228; p. 230 " Little: 230; p. 230 " Spotted: 229; p. 230 Crane: 234; p. 234 Crested Tit: _see_ Titmice Crossbill: 103; p. 138 " Two barred (White-winged): 106; p. 138 Crow, Carrion: 65; p. 68 " Hooded: 67; p. 68 Cuckoo: 137; p. 138 Curlew, Common: 273; p. 246

Dabchick: _see_ Grebe, Little Dipper: 51; p. 47 Diver, Black-throated: 298; p. 291 " Great Northern: 297; p. 291 " Red-throated: 299; p. 291 Dotterel: 244; p. 246 Dove, Ring (Wood Pigeon): 203; p. 208 " Rock: 208; p. 208 " Stock: 207; p. 208 " Turtle: 209; p. 208 Duck, Black: _see_ Scoter, Black " Eider: 197; p. 198 " Goldeneye: 195; p. 191 " Long-tailed: 196; p. 198 " Pintail: 190; p. 190 " Scaup: 194; p. 191 " Tufted: 194; p. 191 " Wild: 185; p. 179 Dunlin: 262; p. 262

Eagle, Golden: 152; p. 152 " Sea, or White-tailed: 153; p. 152 " Spotted: 152; p. 152

Falcon: _see_ Peregrine Falcon Fern Owl: _see_ Nightjar Fieldfare: 5; p. 2 Flycatcher, Pied: 79; p. 69 " Spotted: 77; p. 69 Fulmar: _see_ Petrel, Fulmar

Gadwall: 189; p. 179 Gallinule: _see_ Moor-hen Gannet: 168; p. 167 Garganey: 192; p. 190 Godwit, Bar-tailed: 272; p. 247 " Black-tailed: 273; p. 270 Gold Crest: _see_ Wren Goldfinch: 88; p. 96 Goosander: 201; p. 199 Goose, Bean: 178; p. 178 " Bernicle: 181; p. 166 " Brent: 180; p. 166 " Grey Lag: 176; p. 178 " Pink-footed: 179; p. 178 " White-fronted: 177; p. 178 Grebe: black-necked: 308; p. 298 " Great-crested: 300; p. 298 " Little: 302; p. 199 " Red-necked: 301; p. 298 " Slavonian: 302; p. 298 Greenfinch: 86; p. 69 Greenshank: 271; p. 270 Grosbeak, Pine: 102 Grouse, Black: 213; p. 209 " Red: 215; p. 209 Guillemot, Common: 292; p. 290 " Black: 294; p. 290 Gull, Black or Brown-headed: 281; p. 282 " Common: 283; p. 279 " Glaucous: 287; p. 279 " Great Black-backed: 286; p. 279 " Herring: 285; p. 282 " Kittiwake: 287; p. 282 " Lesser Black-backed: 285; p. 279 " Little: 281; p. 282

Harrier, Hen: 148; p. 148 " Marsh: 147; p. 153 " Montagu's: 149; p. 148 Hawfinch: 87; p. 96 Hawk, Sparrow: 156; p. 153 Heron, Common: 170; p. 234 " Night: 173; p. 234 Hobby: 161; p. 153 Hoopoe: 136; p. 129

Jackdaw: 61; p. 68 Jay: 58; p. 59

Kestrel: 163; p. 148 Kingfisher: 132; p. 129 Kite: 158; p. 149 Kittiwake: _see_ Gull, Kittiwake Knot: 261; p. 257

Lapwing: 247; p. 246 Lark, Shore: 122; p. 117 " Sky: 119; p. 117 " Wood: 122; p. 117 Linnet: 98; p. 85 " Mountain: 100; p. 97

Magpie: 59; p. 59 Martin, House: 83; p 84 " Sand: 84; p. 84 Merganser: 202; p. 199 Merlin: 162; p. 153 Moor-hen: 231; p. 231

Nettle-creeper: _see_ Whitethroat Nightingale: 17; p. 16 Nightjar: 125; p. 220 Nutcracker: 57; p. 58 Nuthatch: 44; p. 46

Oriole: 53; p. 47 Osprey: 154; p. 152 Owl, Barn or White: 142; p. 139 " Long-eared: 144; p. 139 " Short-eared: 145; p. 139 " Tawny or Brown: 146; p. 139 Ox-bird: _see_ Dunlin Ox-eye: _see_ Great Tit Oyster-catcher: 248; p. 278

Partridge, Common: 222; p. 209 " Red-legged: 225; p. 209 Penguin: _see_ Razor-bill Peewit: _see_ Lapwing Peregrine Falcon: 159; p. 148 Petrel, Fork-tailed: 308; p. 299 " Fulmar: 304; p. 299 " Storm: 307; p. 299 Phalarope, Grey: 253; p. 247 " Red-necked: 253; p. 247 Pheasant: 219; p. 220 Pipit, Meadow: 117; p. 116 " Rock: 118; p. 116 " Tree: 116; p. 116 Pigeon, Wood; 203; p. 208 Plover, Cream-coloured: 240 " Golden: 240; p. 235 " Green: 247 Grey: 242; p. 235 " Kentish: 246; p. 235 " Ringed: 244; p. 235 " Stone or Great Norfolk: 239; p. 246 Pochard (or Dunbird): 193; p. 191 Pratincole: 238; p. 221 Ptarmigan: 217; p. 221 Puffin: 295; p. 290

Quail: 226; p. 221

Raven: 63; p. 59 Razor-bill: 291; p. 290 Redbreast: _see_ Robin Redpoll, Lesser: 99; p. 97 " Mealy: 99; p. 97 Redstart: 14; p. 9 " Black: 16; p. 9 Redshank; 269; p. 270 Redwing: 2; p. 2 Reedling, Bearded: _see_ Bearded Reedling Reeve, Female of Ruff: 266 Ring Ouzel: 10; p. 3 Ringtail: _see_ Hen Harrier Robin: 16; p. 16 Roller: 134; p. 129 Rook; 68; p. 68 Ruff and Reeve: 266; p. 270

Sanderling: 260; p. 257 Sand-grouse: 211; p. 221 Sandpiper, Common: 268; p. 263 " Curlew: 261; p. 263 " Green: 267; p. 263 " Purple: 264; p. 263 " Wood: 268; p. 257 Scaup: 194; p. 191 Scoter, Black (or Common): 199; p. 198 " Surf: 201 " Velvet: 200; p. 198 Shag: 167; p. 166 Shearwater, Great: 305; p. 283 " Manx: 305; p. 299 Sheldrake: 184; p. 179 Shoveler: 189; p. 179 Shrike, Great Grey: 73; p. 58 " Lesser Grey: 74 " Red-backed: 74; p. 58 " Woodchat: 76; p. 58 Siskin: 90; p. 96 Skua, Great: 288; p. 283 " Richardson's: 290; p. 283 " Twist-tailed: 289; p. 283 Smew: 202; p. 199 Snipe, Common; 257; p. 256 " Jack: 259; p. 256 " Great or Solitary: 256; p. 256 Sparrow: House: 92; p. 85 " Hedge: 20; p. 16 " Tree: 94; p. 85 Spoonbill, White: 176; p. 231 Starling: 54; p. 47 " Rose-coloured: 56; p. 47 Stint, Little: 265; p. 262 " Temminck's: 265; p. 262 Stonechat: 13; p. 9 Stork: 175; p. 234 " Black: 175 Swallow: 80; p. 84 " Night: _see_ Nightjar Swan, Bewick's: 181; p. 167 " Whooper or Wild: 180; p. 167 Swift: 123; p. 84

Teal: 191; p. 190 Tern, Arctic: 278; p. 271 " Black: 275; p. 271 " Common: 278; p. 278 " Little: 279; p. 278 " Roseate: 277; p. 271 " Sandwich: 276; p. 271 Thick-knee: _see_ Plover, Great Thrush, Song: 1; p. 2 " Mistle: 1; p. 2 Titmouse, Great: 37; p. 34 " Blue: 39; p. 35 " Cole: 40; p. 35 " Marsh: 41; p. 35 " Bearded: 42 " Crested: 42; p. 35 " Long-tailed: 35; p. 34 Titlark: _see_ Pipit, Meadow Tree-creeper: 47; p. 46 Turnstone: 250; p. 278 Twite: _see_ Linnet, Mountain