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38 Gaelic Society of Inueniess.
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MEADOW PIPIT, OR HEATHER LINTIE.
Anthns pratensis. Gaelic Snathay, liiabhay-inliondiiUi
(Grey). Welsli Hedydd y cae.
The first is the Gaelic name always given in Athole to tliis
bird, and a story is told in Strathardle of an English gentleman,
who had asked an old shepherd what were the commonest l)irds on
his hill, getting for answer— "Needleag, whistleag, heatheraig-lien,
and rashirag-horn ;" being the best English the old man could
muster for snathag (heather lintie), feadag (golden })lover), ceai-cfhraoich
(grouse), and adhai'can-luachrach (green plover).
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ROCK PIPIT.
Anthus petrosns. Gaelic
eun (Grey).
Oabhagan, Bigehi, Glas-
Group II— Conirostres. Family 1.— Alandidoi.
SKY-LARK, OR LAVEROCK.
Latin Alaiida rp/estris. Gaelic Ciseag, Riahhag. Welsh
Hedydd, Uchedydd.
The Douglas said that he would rather hear the laverock sing
than the mouse squeak. The old Highlanders expressed the same
sentiment in their old proverb— " Cha 'n 'eil deatliach 'an tigh na
h-uiseige"—There is no smoke in the lark's house. Sheriff Nicolson
says — "The bird of most aspiring and happy song has untainted
air in its lowly home." As the mavis was honoured aa the prima
donna of song in the woods and bushy glens, so the lark was
reckoned the sweetest songster in the open moors and meadows.
the bard says
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Latin
"Bidh uiseag air Ion
Agus smeorach air geig."
The lark on the meadow
And the mavis on the tree.
WOOD LARK.
Ahinda arborea. Gaelic Uiseag-choille, liuibhoy-v/wU/e
(Grey). Welsh Iledydd y coed.
The wood lark is mentioned by Macintyre and amongst his
other woodland birds in " Coirecheathaich "
" Bha eoin an t-sleibhe 'nan ealtainn gle-ghlan,
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A* gaVjhail Ijheusan air gheig sa' clioill.
An uiseag cheutach, 's a luinneag fcin aico,
Feadan speiseil gu reidh a' seinn :
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