 The name was long obsolete by the 19th century, but known from its poetic use, as in Robert Burns's 1794 poem "Ca' the Yowes" ("Hark the mavis evening sang/Sounding Clouden's woods amang"); and in the popular love song "Mary of Argyle" (c.1850), where lyricist Charles Jefferys wrote, "I have heard the mavis singing its love-song to the morn.