220 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Snow-bird. A name for the SNOW-BUNTING (North 

 England and Scotland) ; also the FIELDFARE (Shi-op- 

 shire) ; and the IVORY GULL (Fleming). 



SNOW-BUNTING [No. 56]. From its inhabiting the Polar 

 Regions and its Avhite winter-plumage. Occurs in Sibbald 

 (1684) as " Snowfleck and Shoulfall," and in Edwards as 

 " Snow-bird." 



Snow-chick. A name for the PTARMIGAN. (Hett.) 



SNOW-FINCH [No. 39]. An Alpine species which has lately 

 occurred in our Islands. The name is found in Latham 

 (" Syn.," m, p. 264). 



Snow-Finch : The Snow Bunting (Dumfriesshire.) 



Snowflake or Snaw Fowl : The SNOW-BUNTING. (Orkney 

 and Shetland.) The name occurs in Sibbald as Snowfleck. 

 Montagu gives Snow Fowl as a provincial name. Swainson 

 also gives " Snow Flight " as a name for the species. Saxby 

 gives " Snaa Fool " (^Snow Fowl) for the Shetlands. 



SNOW-GOOSE [No. 279, Snow-Gocse ; No. 280, Greater 

 Snow-Goose]. So called from its inhabiting the Ai'ctic 

 Regions and from its white plumage. It was described by 

 Pallas imder the name hyperboreus, which implies its Arctic 

 habitat. The smaller form is the one which has occurred 

 irregularly in small numbers in Ireland, but the Greater, 

 or Greenland, form has only been obtained once. 



Snow Lark Bunting : The SNOW-BUNTING. (Macgillivray.) 



SNOWY-OWL [No. 218]. This species, so called from its 

 Arctic habitat and its wliite plumage, occurs in Edwards 

 pi. 61) as the " Great White Owl." Snowy Owl occurs in 

 Pennant's " Arctic Zoology " and in Latham. MacgilHvray 

 calls it Snowy Day-Owl. 



Snfff-headed Wigeon. a name for the C0I\OI0N POCHARD. 

 (Swainson.) 



Snyth : The COOT. (See Snaith.) 



SocAN EiRA : The FIELDFARE. (North Wales) lit. " snow 

 wallower." 



SOCIABLE PLOVER [No. 366]. A rare straggler from south 

 Russia and west Asia. The name is derived from the 

 name gregarius conferred on it by Pallas in 1771. 



Sod. a Forfar name for the ROCK-DOVE. (Swainson.) 



SoFLiAR. A Welsh name for the QUAIL ; lit. " stubble-hen." 



Solan Goose or Soland Goose : The GANNET. Occurs in 

 Barlow (1655) and Merrett's list as " Soland Goose," and 

 in Turner (1544) as " Solend Goose." Willughby has 



