146 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Little Petrel : The STORM-PETREL. (Pennant.) 

 Little Pickie : The LITTLE TERN. (Forfarshire.) 

 Little Red Hawk : The KESTREL. (Yorkshire.) 

 Little Redpolb Linnet : The LESSER REDPOLL. 

 Little Ring Dottrell : The LITTLE RINGED PLOVER. 



(Gould.) 

 LITTLE RINGED PLOVER [No. 359]. The name is found in 



Jenyns (1835) and also Yarrell (1st ed.) and later ^\Tite^s. 

 Little Sandpiper : The LITTLE STINT ; also TEMMINCK'S 



STINT. (Montagu.) 



Little Snipe : The DLWLIN. (Swaledale and Arkengarthdale, 

 Yorkshire.) 



LITTLE STINT [No. 375]. This name appears in Bewick 

 (1797). It is the Little Sandpiper of Pennant, Montagu, 

 Latham, etc., and the " Minute Tringa " of Selby. 



LITTLE TERN [No. 421]. " Little Tern " seems "to be first 

 found in Gould's " Birds of Europe " (pt. 8, 18341. Pennant 

 (1766) and succeeding authors to Yarrell (1843) generally 

 call this species " Lesser Tern." It is the Lesser Sea- 

 Swallow of Willughby. 



Little Whaut : The \\TIIMBREL. (East Lothian) lit. 

 " Little Curlew." 



Little White Heron : The LITTLE EGRET (Willughby) ; 

 also the young BUFF-BACI<a:D HERON (Montagu). 



Little Woodcock : The GREAT SNIPE. (Ireland.) 



Little Woodpecker: The LESSER SPOTTED WOOD- 

 PECKER (Yorkshire) ; the TREECREEPER (Marton- 

 in-Cleveland, Yorkshire). 



Little Woodpie : The LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 

 (Hampshire.) The GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER 

 is called " Woodpie " in the same county. 



Little Wren: The GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. (Loftus- 

 in-Cleveland, Yorkshire.) 



Liver or Lever. The species intended by this name seems a 

 matter cf uncertainty. Montagu (" Om. Diet.," Supp., 1813) 

 is the authority for stating that it was an Ibis, called " Liver," 

 and that the conjunction of the name with the "pool" 

 on which it was obtained, gives rise to the name of the 

 city of Liverpool. Newton was of opinion that Lever was 

 the correct spelling and that the SPOONBILL was intended, 

 a bird which of course frequented such places and moreover 

 bred in Enofland in ancient times. Newton cites Randle 



