Chapter intro

Teuchat, teuchit

 - lapwing Vanellus cristatus. Their untidy flight is described in a poem by James Guthrie (1879):

The teuchats flaffer owre the tufftit bog.

Tae hunt the teuchit is to be engaged on some fruitless pursuit and a place the teuchits dinna ken o is a very remote place, the back of beyond.

Teistie Throstle