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Lesser White- winged Gull : The ICELAND GULL. (YarreU.) 

 Less Titmouse : The BLUE TITMOUSE. (Merrett.) Turner's 

 Less Titmouse is apparently the LONG-TAILED TIT- 

 MOUSE, as he says it has a long tail. Mr. Evans thought 

 it to be the MARSH- or COAL-TITMOUSE. 

 LEVANTINE SHEARWATER [No. 329]. A Mediterranean 

 sub-species of the MANX SHEARWATER, which occurs 

 casually on our coasts (see Saunders, " Manual," 2nd ed., 

 pp. 741-2). It is the Ame damni'e of the Turks, who believe 

 that the souls of the wicked pass into these birds and are 

 doomed to wander for ever over the waters. 



Liath-Troisg. a Gaelic name for the FIELDFARE. 



Lich-fowl: The NIGHTJAR. (Cheshire and Shropshire.) 



See " Gabble-Ratchet." 

 Liltie-cock or Lintie-cock : The CORMORANT. (Staithes, 



Yorkshii-e.) 

 LiNBENGOCH or Llinos BEN GOCH. A Welsh name for the 



LINNET ; lit. " redheaded Linnet." In North Wales the 



name is applied to the LESSER REDPOLL. 

 Ling-bird, Ling-Tit, or Lingie : The MEADOW-PIPIT. 



(Cumberland, West Yorkshire.) 

 Ling Linnet : The TWITE. (Ribblesdale, Yorkshire.) 



Links Goose: The COMMON SHELD-DUCK. (Orkneys.) 

 Because it frequents the " links " or sandy plains near 

 the sea. 



LINNET [No. 27]. So called from its partiality for the seed of 

 flax. Der. of A.Sax. Lmete^fia,x and Linet-wige=^-1isix- 

 hopper, from the latter of which is derived the northern 

 provincial name of " Lintwhite." The name occurs as 

 *'Linot" in Turner (1544) and as " Linet " in Merrett's 

 list. Plot (1677) has " Linnet," while Willughby caUs it 

 the " common Linnet," as does also Sibbald. It is also 

 the Greater Red-headed Linnet of Willughby and others, 

 and the Greater Redpole of Montagu. According to 

 Swainson, " Linnet " is a local name for the GOLDFINCH 

 in Shropshire. 



Linnet Finch : The LINNET. (Provincial.) 



LiNTiE : The LINNET (Scotland) ; also the TWITE (Orkneys 

 and Shet lands). 



Lintwhite : The LINNET. (Orkneys.) As an older Scottish 

 name it occurs as " Lintquhit," the derivation being also 

 from A.Sax. Linet-wige (see under LINNET). According to 

 Swainson Lintwhite is a Suffolk name for the SKY-LARK. 



