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Smatch or Smatche : The WHEATEAR. Occurs in Turner 

 (1544) and MeiTett. Newton says it is an equivalent of 

 Chat. 



Smee Duck : The SMEW. (Norfolk.) Also applied in the same 

 county to the WIGEON and the COIVDION POCHARD. 



Smeorach. a Gaelic name for the SONG-THRUSH. Graham 

 thought it to be from smehr, to grease, " probably from the 

 smoothness of its liquid notes." 



Smeu, Smeuth, or Smooth: The WILLOW- WARBLER. 

 (Stirling.) 



SMEW [No. 314]. In Willughby (1678) the name Smew occui-s 

 in the text (p. 338), the species being described, however, 

 imder the heading of " White Nun," which NevHon thinks 

 is the male name, from the hooded appearance of its head, 

 Smew being the female. Pennant, however, gives Smew as 

 the male name, and " Lough Diver " as the female. The 

 name Smew Merganser is also applied to this species. 



Smoky : The HEDGE-SPARROW. (Northumberland.) " As 

 mild as a Smoky " is a local proverb. 



Smool. a name for the HEDGE-SPARROW. (Hett.) 



Sm^DAN. A Gaelic name for the RING-DOVE. 



Snabby : The CHAFFINCH. (Kirkcudbright.) 



Snaith or Snyth: The COOT. (Orkneys.) From Icel. 

 Snaud-ur=ha^e, in reference to the bare frontal plate. 



Snake-bird : The A^^YNECK. (Southern English coimties.) 

 Perhaps from the hissing noise it makes when disturbed 

 while sitting, or else from its habit of t^visting its head and 

 neck. 



Snapper : The GREEN WOODPECKER. (Swainson.) 



Snent. a Ber^^ick name for the DL^NLIN and other small 

 shore-birds : a corruption of Stint. 



Snipe: The CO^kBION SNIPE. (Mei-rett and Willughby.) 

 Also the general colloquial name for the species. 



Snipe-billed Sandpiper: The RED-BREASTED SAND- 

 PIPER. 



Snipe Hawk : The MARSH-HARRIER. (South of Ireland.) 



Snipen : The COM]\ION SNIPE. (North Wales.) An equiva- 

 lent of " Snipe." 



Snippick or Snippack : The COMMON SNIPE. (Orkoiey and 

 Shetland.) 



Snorter : The \^^IEATEAR. (Dorset.) Swainson thinks it 

 is from its ciy. 



