208 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Scotch Nightingale: The SEDGE-WARBLER. From its 

 singing at night. 



Scotch Wren : The WILLOW- WARBLER. (Pennant.) 



Scoter: The CO^VOION SCOTER. (Pennant, Montagu, etc.) 



Scottish Crested Titmouse. See CRESTED TITMOUSE. 



Scottish Crossbill. See COINIMON CROSSBILL. 



ScouL. A Cornish name for the KITE. 



ScouLTON Pewit or Scoulton Pie : The BLACK-HEADED 

 GULL. (Norfolk.) From its breeding at Scoulton Mere. 



Scout : The CO]\mON GUILLEMOT (Yorkshire and Scot- 

 land); also applied to the RAZORBILL (Scotland). 

 Sibbald mentions the latter vmder the name of Auk, " the 

 Scout of our coimtry folk." Willvighby prints it Skout, 

 and gives it as a Yorkshire name. The word as used is of 

 Scandinavian origin and signifies to drive away. Also a 

 Earn Island name for the PUFFIN. 



SCOUTIALLIN, ScOTJTY-ALLAN, or ScOUTY-AULTN : The ARCTIC 



SKUA. (Orkney and Shetland.) 



ScRABER : The LITTLE AUK. (St. Kilda.) Also the MANX 

 SHEARWATER (Hebrides); and the BLACK GUIL- 

 LEMOT (Hebrides, East Lothian). Said to be from its 

 Norwegian name, skrabe, or scraper, because it scrapes a 

 hole in the sand for its nest. 



ScRAYE : The COMMON TERN. From its cry. 



Screamer, Screecher, Screech Martin, Squealer. English 

 provincial names for the SWIFT, from its harsh screaming 

 note. 



Screaming Owl : The BARN-OWT.. (Yorkshire.) 



Screch y coed, a Welsh name for the JAY ; lit. " Mood 

 screech." 



Screech, or Screech Thrush : The MISTLE -THRUSH. So 

 called from its loud song. Screech-bird or Screech-Thrush 

 is also a Stirling name for the FIELDFARE. 



Screech Hawk: The NIGHTJAR. (Berks, and Bucks.) 



Screech Owl, Scrich-owle, or Scritch-owl. Properly the 

 BARN-OWL. Sibbald applies the name to the TAWNY 

 OWL. The former occurs in Merrett (1867) as the " Screech 

 or Screeching Owl." In old English the name owl occurs 

 as " Oule," "Ouul," or "Ule," the latter being the Saxon 

 name. In Rowland's "More Knaves Yet" (ca. 1613) 

 occurs : — 



Wise Gosling, did but heare the scrich-owle crye, 

 And told his wife, and straight a pigge did dye. 



