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Rh is akin to "Caw," and is therefore imitative.

(older spelling or ) = a bird of gay plumage.

is imitative, and signifies "a chirper." It is probably akin to Latin picus.

= Anglo-Saxon hraefn, probably connected with to make a noise; cf. Latin crepare. The word has absolutely nothing to do with &c, which is akin to rapine.

—in Anglo-Saxon, hróc, "a croaker"—is imitative.

is a contraction of or ; Anglo-Saxon, láwerce. In Icelandic there is a word lae-wirki, "a worker of guile," and it has been suggested that lâwerce is another form of this. Should this be correct, it would appear that the Lark must for some reason have been a bird of ill-omen to our Anglo-Saxon ancestors.

is imitative, and connected with, which appears in "howlet."

= the tearer (Latin, vellere).

formerly spelt which comes through Low Latin from the Latin buteo—a word used by Pliny to signify the Sparrow-Hawk.

"the seizer." Root as in German haben.

probably comes from a Teutonic root "to shoot" or "go swiftly"; and the same root is seen in  and in the American slang word "scoot."

so called from its sickle- (Lat. falx) shaped beak and talons.

comes, through the French, from the Latin merula, a blackbird; cf. merle.

is a corruption of ossifragus, "the bone-breaker."

is a corruption of Corvus marinus, "the seacrow." The Spanish name is Cuervo marino.

so called from its crest. It is practically the same word as the Scandivanian skägg, "a beard," or anything that juts out.

, "little goose." Root (as in gan-der) + diminutive suffix

is probably imitative of the bird's cry, and, in