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248 BUNTING— BUZZARD
sgiboil (Iv.), more prop, barn-sparrow, gola-bhigein, gualach or
gualachan (? gealach), white or snow one.
Bentlark (corn), Bessy-blackcap, Billy-biter, black-bird, black-
bonnet, black coaly-hood, black-headed bodkin or bunting (reed),
brambling, briar bunting, bunt-lark, buntlin, buntling, buntling-
lark, bush-lark ; Chink, cirl-bunting, coal-hoodie, coaly-hood, cock
o' the North, common bunting, colin black-head, corn-bunting ;
Ebb ; Ghallie (gealaidh — snow) ; Horn-bill, hornbill-bunting, horse-
lark ; Lark-bunting ; Moss-sparrow (reed), mountain-bunting ;
North-cock ; Oat-bird or fowl ; Pied-finch ; Redwing, reed-bunting,
reed-sparrow, ring-bird or fowl, i-ing-bunting ; Skite (yellow),
skitter broltie or brottie (Oi'kney), snaa-fool, snaw-fow], snow-
bird, snow-bunting, snow-flake, snow-fleek, snow-flight, spang,
sparrow, spear ; Tawny bunting, thistle-cock, thristle-cock (Ir.),
toad-snatcher ; Water-sparrow, white lark, white-winged lark ;
Yeldie, yeldring, yella-yorlin, yellow bunting, yellow-hammer,
yite.
From Gaelic " Bun," lit. a stumpy bird.
The black-cap bunting does not put in an appearance until
the month of May has begun, nearly a month later than most
migratory birds. The song is little inferior to that of the
nightingale, for which it has often been mistaken.
BUSTARD (see also Curlew). — Coileach-Turcach fiadhaich.
Avis tarda; Bistai'd, botor ; Gustard ; Little bustard; Thick-
kneed bustard.
This bird, as well as the bittern, are extinct in most places
where once they were plentiful ; this is owing to the increase in
population.
BUTCHER-BIRD (see Shrike).
BUZZARD (see also Hawk). — Armhaidhe, armhuigh ; Beal-
bhan, beilbhean-ruadh, bleidir, bleidire, bleidir-riabhach (honey
b.), bleidii'-tonach or molach (rough-legged, lai'ge-hipped, or
bunchy) ; Clarahan (kite), clamhan-gobhlach (fork-tailed), clamh-
an-riabhach (honey b.), crom-riabhach ; Finnean, finneun; Gearr-
chlamhan, gilm ; Parr or para-riabhach (honey b.), preachan-gearr ;
Searrach-ruadh, stannaire.
Bald kite, bee buzzard, bee hawk, bisette, bissarte, bog-gled,
brown buzzard or hawk, buzzard hawk ; Capped buzzard, common
buzzard ; Dunpickle (North) ; Falcon ; Glade, glead, gled, gos-
hawk, grey Peter (honey) ; Hen-harrier, honey buzzard, honey-
kite ; Kite ; Moor buzzard j Puddock, puttock ; Rough-legged
buzzard or falcon ; Sorner.
The number of buzzards destroyed in Glengarry in three years,
1837-1840, amounted to 700.
Burns says, "There is Satan's picture, like a buzzard gled."