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66 Gaelic Society of Inuerness.
The Gaelic name of this bird— "The Peat-moss Fool"—is
siui^ularly appropriate, for, from its exceedingly foolish, simple,
and unsuspicious habits, it falls an easy prey to all emenies.
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HINGED PLOVER.
Charadrius hiaticula. Gaelic —Trileachan-trai(/he, BolJutg.
Welsh— ^l/6r Uedydd.
GREY PLOVER.
Squatarola cinerea. Gaelic Greagay, Trileachan, Feadagghlas
(Grey). Welsh Cwttyn llwyd.
LAPWING OR PEEWIT.
Latin Vanellu)- cristatus. Gaelic Adharcan-luachrach, Adharcaghtachrach,
Pibhinn (Grey). Welsh Cornchwigl.
I find that m Galloway and many parts of the south of Scotland
this bird is universally disliked, ever since the old Covenanting
days, when it betrayed many a wanderer on the hills to the
blood-thirsty troopers, by its well-known habit of following anyone
who may come near its haunts, making a clamorous outcry.
Captain Burt also, in his letters from the North of Scotland, mentions
another rather curious reason why the peewit was disliked
in olden times m Scotland; it is also mentioned by other writers,
esjjecially by the Rev. James Headrick in his "Agricultural View
of Forfarshire," published in 1 813. He says:— " The green plover
or peeseweep appears early in spring and goes otf in autumn. As
they only come north for the purpose of incubation, and are very
lean, none of them ai-e liked for food. They return to the fenny
districts of England, where they get very fat, and are killed in
great numbers. In consequence of the inveteracy excited by the
ambitious pretensions of Edward I. to the Scottish crown, an old
Scottish Parliament passed an Act ordering all the pceseweeps' nests
to be demolished, and their eggs to be broken; assigning as a reason,
that these birds might not go south and become a delicious rejMst
to our unnatural enemies the English^
Latin
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TURNSIONE OR HEBRIDAL SANDPIPER.
b'trepsilas interpres. Gaelic (Jobhachan, Ttileachantraighe.
Welsh Huttan y mdr.
SANDERLING.
Calidris arenaria. Gaelic Luadhearan-glas, TrUeachanglas.
Welsh Llwyd y tywod.
OYSTER-CATCHER OR SEA-PI ET.
HcematoptLS ostralegus. Gaelic O'ille-bride Gille-bridein,
Bridean, Dolid. Welsh Piogen y inor.
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