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36 Gaelic Society of Inverness.
WIIIX-CIIAT.
Latin—Saxicola rubetro. Gaelic Gochdan, Gochcan. Welsh
Clochder yr eithin.
WHEATEAR.
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I^tin—Saxicola cenanthe. Gaelic Cloichearan, Bru-ghpnL Crifhachan,
Bogachan. Welsh Tinwyn y cerrig.
This bird no doubt got its two last Gaelic names from its
constant habit of shaking or quivering its tail. Grey gives the
following old Hebridean superstition about this bird:— "There
is a very curious superstition prevalent in North and South IJist
regarding the bii-d on its arrival. When seen for the first time
in the season, the natives are quite unhappy if it should happen
to be perched on a rock or a stone— such a circumstance, as they
say, being a sure sign of evil in jirospect ; but should the bird be
seen perched on a bit of turf, it is looked upon as a happy omen."
Latin
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SKDGE WARBLER.
Salicaria phrnfjmitis. Ga,e\ic — Glas-emi, Uiseag-oidhcJie.
Welsh Hedydd yr hdyg.
This bird got its Gaelic name— Uiseag-oidhche, Night-lark
—from its well-known habit of singing all through the night,
which makes so many people mistake it for the nightingale.
Latin
NIGHTINGALE.
PJiilomela Lttscinin. Gaelic Spideag, Beid-binn, Ros-anceol.
Welsh Fos.
The first Gaelic name is that given by Alex. Macdonald in
his vocabulary, also in the Highland Society's Dictionary, which
also gives the second name— Beul-binn, sweet mouth ; the third
is that given by Logan in his Scottish Gael. He says— " The
Nightingale, which has now forsaken the noithern part of the
island, is supposed to have once frequented the woods of Scotland.
Its name in Gaelic is beautifully expressive of the sweetness of its
song and the character of the l^ird. In Ilos-an-ceol, tlie rose
music, the melody is put for the melodist, the former being heard
when the latter is unseen."
Latin Curruca
BLACKCAP.
atricapilla. Gaelic — Cean.n-dubJt.
Penddu 'r brwyn.
Welsh
Latin
Curruca
WHITE-THROAT.
cinerea. Gaelic — Gcakoi-coille.
gtoddfgwyn.
W^clsh — Y