Orkney and Shetland. Also lyer, lyrie, layer, lyar. [a. Da. lire.] The bird Manx Shearwater, Puffinus anglorum.
1654. Blaeu’s Atlas Scot., Orkney. The Stour, where buildet that excellent foul, called the Lyer.
1701. J. Brand, Descr. Orkney (1703), 22. The Lyre is a rare and delicious Sea fowl.
1777. Pennant, Zool. (1812), II. 207.
1889. Saunders, Man. Brit. Birds, 719. Lyrie.
