craik

The craik amang the claver hay, [corn-crake, clover]

Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907

It was a delightful evening, full of an indescribable tranquillity -- a tranquillity not at all disturbed by the _craik_ of the rail in the clover, or the plaintive minor of the cuckoo in the thick groves.

The Hallam Succession Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr 1875

Whaur the corn-craik craiks i 'the lang-heidit rye,

The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 George MacDonald 1864

However, all we could say had nae effect -- the craik was never out o 'his head; and it was still,' I will be a sailor. '

Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII Alexander Leighton 1837

"Silence, silence, till I complate my rural ideas -- in some gentleman's rookery at all events; the thrush here, the blackbird there, the corn-craik chanting its varied note in another place, and so on.

Going to Maynooth Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831