142 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Lesser Mountain Finch or Bra]\ibling : The SNOW- 

 BUNTING. (WiUughby.) 



Lesser Pettychaps : The CHIFFCHAFF. (Pennant and 

 Montagu.) 



Lesser Red-headed Linnet : The LESSER REDPOLL 

 (WiUughby, Pennant) ; also the TWITE (Rutty). 



LESSER REDPOLL [No. 23]. It is found in Montagu (1802). 

 Occurs in WiUughby as Lesser Red-headed Linnet. The 

 name has reference to its smaU size and red crown, or 

 " poU." 



Lesser Reed-Sparrow : The SEDGE- WARBLER (?). Occurs 

 in WiUughby. Montagu ascribes it to the REED- 

 WARBLER. 



Lesser Saddle-back : The LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL. 

 (Yorkshire.) From its dark saddle-shaped mantle. 



Lesser Sea-Swallow: The LITTLE TERN. Occurs in 

 WiUughby and Ray. 



Lesser Snow Goose. See SNOW-GOOSE. 



Lesser Sooty Tern. A tropical species of which a single example 

 is said, on somewhat imperfect evidence, to have been 

 taken on a lightship at the mouth of the Thames in 1875. 



Lesser Spotted Eagle. See SPOTTED EAGLE. 



Lesser Spotted Water Rail: The SPOTTED CRAKE. 

 (Bewick.) 



LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER [No. 212, British 

 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker]. The name i-efers to 

 the variegated black-and-white upper-plumaee and to 

 its being of less size than the GREAT SPOTTED WOOD- 

 PECKER. It occurs in Albin (1738). Hartert has 

 separated the resident British race from the Continental 

 forms, hence the change of name. 



Lesser Tern : The LITTLE TERN. 



Lesser Toothed Diver. A provincial name for the RED- 

 BREASTED MERGANSER. (Montagu.) From its ser- 

 rated biU and lesser size than the GOOSANDER. 



Lesser Tree-Lark : The TREE-PIPIT. 



Lesser Water-Sparrow : The SEDGE-W^ARBLER. 



LESSER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE [No. 276]. A very rare 

 straggler, closely aUied to the WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, 

 but of smaller size. 



LESSER WHITETHROAT [No. 148]. The name occurs first 

 in Latham's " Synopsis " (Supp., p. 185). 



