LAPWING LESSER. 141 



LEAST SPOTTED WOODPECKER: The LESSER SPOTTED 

 WOODPECKER. 



LEAST TITMOUSE : The LONG-TAILED TITMOUSE. (Merrett.) 



LEAST WILLOW- WREN : The CHIFFCHAFF. (Tunstall, 

 Bewick.) 



LEG BIRD. A provincial name for the SEDGE- WARBLER. 

 (Swainson.) 



LEMON BIRD : The LINNET. (West Yorkshire.) 



LENNERT. A North Country name for the LINNET. 



LESSER ASH-COLOURED HERON : The NIGHT-HERON. 

 (Willughby.) 



LESSER BLACK-BACK: The LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL. 

 (Yorkshire.) 



LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL [No. 433]. The name refers 

 to its smaller size than the GREAT BLACK-BACKED 

 GULL. It first occurs in Montagu (1802) as Less Black- 

 backed Gull. It is the Silvery Gull of Pennant's "Arctic 

 Zoology." 



LESSER BRAMBLING : The SNOW- BUNTING (?). Found in 

 Pennant (1766). 



LESSER BUSTARD : The LITTLE BUSTARD. 



LESSER BUTCHER-BIRD: The RED-BACKED SHRIKE. Occurs 

 in Willughby (1678). 



LESSER COB : The LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL. (Pro- 

 vincial.) 



LESSER CRESTED GREBE : The BLACK-NECKED GREBE. 

 (Pennant.) 



LESSER CRESTED LARK : The TREE-PIPIT. (Willughby, 

 Pennant, etc.) 



LESSER DUN DIVER : The RED-BRESTED MERGANSER. 

 (Pennant.) 



LESSER FAUVETTE : The GARDEN- WARBLER. (Bewick, 

 1797.) 



LESSER GODWIT : The BLACK-TAILED GODW1T. (Pennant.) 



LESSER GREY SHRIKE [No. 106]. The name is found in 

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



LESSER GUILLEMOT : The COMMON GUILLEMOT. It was 

 considered a separate species by Pennant. 



LESSER IMBER : The BLACK-THROATED DIVER. (Pro- 

 vincial.) 



LESSER KESTREL [No. 238]. A close ally of the KESTREL 

 but smaller in size, hence the name. 



