Also 7 cole-hooding, 9 cole-hood, -head, coaly-hood. [f. COAL + HOOD, in reference to its black head.] A local name of the Blackcap and Coal-tit; sometimes applied also to other birds: see quots.
1684. Sibbald, Scotia Illust., 22 (Jam.). Junco, avis capite nigro, cole-hooding dicta.
1818. Hogg, Brownie o’ Bodsbeck, I. 208 (Jam.). Wae’s me … that ever I suld see the colehood take the laverock’s place.
1825–79. Jamieson, Coal-hoodie, the Black-headed Bunting, Mearns.
1847–78. Halliwell, Coal-hood, a bullfinch. West.
1885. Swainson, Provinc. Names Birds, 24. Coal hoodie (North Riding), the Blackcap. Ibid., 33. Coal or Coaly hood (Scotland), the Cole Titmouse.
