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Brick<vn or bricein-buidhe, the
yellow (or Ray's) wagtail.
Bricean-caor.mnx, the mountain
finch.
Brid, bridean, bridein, brid-eun,
a small bird ; oyster-eater,
sea-piet, St Bridget's bird
(see Gille-bride).
Brod-gheadh, a brood goose, a
dam (E. McD.).
Broidileag, broinn-dearg or
deargan, broinileag, bru-
dearg, bru-dhearg, bru-dear-
gan, bruin-deargan, etc., the
robin, robin - redbreast, rud-
dock.
Brollach-bothain, the black-
throated diver.
Bru-gheal, a wheatear.
Bruilin, a swallow (Ir.).
Bualainde, a sea-lark, wagtail.
Buatham, a bittern.
Bubaire, the common bittern.
BucHTHUiNN, buchuinn, the
melodious duck.
BuDAGoc, budagoch, budagochd,
butagochd, a snipe ; also a
woodcock in some places.
BuDHAiGiR, bugaire, buigire, a
puffin.
BuiCEIN-BAINTIGHEiVRNA, a Wag-
tail.
BuiDEiR, buidseir, the butcher-
bird, shrike.
BuiDHEAG, buidhean, a gold-
finch, linnet ; any small,
yellow bird.
BuiDHEAG or buidhean-bhuachair,
a yellow hammer, or ammex',
yellow-yite, yeldrin, yorlin,
etc.
BuiDHEAG-BHEALLAIDH Or bllCal-
luidh, a yellow bunting, yellow-
hammer, or ammer, yeldring,
etc.
BuiDHEAN-coiLLE, a goldfinch,
bullfinch.
BuiLG-Eux, a puffin.
BuiNNEAN-LEANA or liona, a
bittern.
BuiREiN, buiriche, bittern, the
lowing-bird.
Bun, bunna, bunnan, bun-
bhuachaill, the northern diver;
also the bittern or heron.
BuNABHUACHAH^LE, the great auk
(MacDonald), also cormorant.
BuTHAiD, buthaigear, buthrai-
gear, a coulterneb, puffin
(Barra, Harris, St Kilda,
etc.).
Caban, cabon, a capon.
Cabar, cabhar, cubhar, a hawk ;
any old bird.
Cabar-coille, capar or capull-
coille, caprioc, capur, the
capercailzie, mountain-cock,
great cock of the wood, wood
grouse, etc.
Cabhachan, cuckoo-titterer.
Cabhag, cabhog, cadhag, cathag,
a jackdaw, jay.
Cabhag-dhearg-chasach, etc., a
chough or red-legged crow.
Cab-nan-cuileag, the flycatcher.
Cadhag, the magpie.
Cadhan, the wild goose, barnacle
or bernicle goose or duck.
Cai, the cuckoo's bird, tit or
titmouse.
Caidhean, a turtle dove.
Caidhlean, water rail (Caidhlin,
Ir.).
Caifean, caifein, caifein-coille,
chifF-chaff, chatterer, wood-
chatterer.
Cailleach, cailleachag-cheann-
dubh or duibh, a titmouse,
colehood, coletit, colemouse,
blackcap ; little old-wife
blackhead.
Cailleach-bhan, the snowy owl.