142 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



LESSER MOUNTAIN FINCH or BRAMBLING : The SNOW- 

 BUNTING. (Willughby.) 



LESSER PETTYCHAPS : The CHIFFCHAFF. (Pennant and 

 Montagu.) 



LESSER RED-HEADED LINNET: The LESSER REDPOLL 

 (Willughby, Pennant) ; also the TWITE (Rutty). 



LESSER REDPOLL [No. 23]. It is found in Montagu (1802). 

 Occurs in Willughby as Lesser Red-headed Linnet. The 

 name has reference to its small size and red crown, or 

 " poll." 



LESSER REED-SPARROW : The SEDGE-WARBLER (?). Occurs 

 in Willughby. Montagu ascribes it to the REED- 

 WARBLER. 



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

 (Yorkshire.) From its dark saddle-shaped mantle. 



LESSER SEA-SWALLOW: The LITTLE TERN. Occurs in 

 Willughby and Ray. 



LESSER SNOW GOOSE. See SNOW-GOOSE. 



Lesser Sooty Tern. A tropical species of which a single example 

 is said, on somewhat imperfect evidence, to have been 

 taken on a lightship at the mouth of the Thames in 1875. 



LESSER SPOTTED EAGLE. See SPOTTED EAGLE. 



LESSER SPOTTED WATER RAIL: The SPOTTED CRAKE. 

 (Bewick.) 



LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER [No. 212, British 

 Lesser Spotted Woodpecker]. The name refers to 

 the variegated black-and-white upper-plumage and to 

 its being of less size than the GREAT SPOTTED WOOD- 

 PECKER. It occurs in Albin (1738). Hartert has 

 separated the resident British race from the Continental 

 forms, hence the change of name. 



LESSER TERN : The LITTLE TERN. 



LESSER TOOTHED DIVER. A provincial name for the RED- 

 BREASTED MERGANSER. (Montagu.) From its ser- 

 rated bill and lesser size than the GOOSANDER. 



LESSER TREE-LARK : The TREE-PIPIT. 



LESSER WATER-SPARROW : The SEDGE -W T ARBLER. 



LESSER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE [No. 276]. A very rare 

 straggler, closely allied to the WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, 

 but of smaller size. 



LESSER WHITETHROAT [No. 148]. The name occurs first 

 in Latham's " Synopsis " (Supp., p. 185). 



