146 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



LITTLE PETREL : The STORM-PETREL. (Pennant.) 



LITTLE PICKIE : The LITTLE TERN. (Forfarshire.) 



LITTLE RED HAWK : The KESTREL. (Yorkshire.) 



LITTLE REDPOLE LINNET : The LESSER REDPOLL. 



LITTLE RING DOTTRELL : The LITTLE RINGED PLOVER. 

 (Gould.) 



LITTLE RINGED PLOVER [No. 359]. The name is found in 

 Jenyns (1835) and also Yarrell (1st ed.) and later writers. 



LITTLE SANDPIPER : The LITTLE STINT ; also TEMMINCK'S 

 STINT. (Montagu.) 



LITTLE SNIPE : The DUNLIN. (Swaledale and Arkengarthdale, 

 Yorkshire.) 



LITTLE STINT [No. 375]. This name appears in Bewick 

 (1797). It is the Little Sandpiper of Pennant, Montagu, 

 Latham, etc., and the " Minute Tringa " of Selby. 



LITTLE TERN [No. 421], " Little Tern " seems to be first 

 found in Gould's " Birds of Europe " (pt. 8, 1834K Pennant 

 (1766) and succeeding authors to Yarrell (1843) generally 

 call this species " Lesser Tern." It is the Lesser Sea- 

 Swallow of Willughby. 



LITTLE WHAUP : The WHIMBREL. (East Lothian) lit, 

 " Little Curlew." 



LITTLE WHITE HERON : The LITTLE EGRET (Willughby) ; 

 also the young BUFF-BACKED HERON (Montagu). 



LITTLE WOODCOCK : The GREAT SNIPE. (Ireland.) 



LITTLE WOODPECKER: The LESSER SPOTTED WOOD- 

 PECKER (Yorkshire) ; the TREECREEPER (Marton- 

 in-Cleveland, Yorkshire). 



LITTLE WOODPIE : The LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER, 

 (Hampshire.) The GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER 

 is caJled " Woodpie " in the same county. 



LITTLE WREN: The GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. (Loftus- 

 in-Cleveland, Yorkshire.) 



LIVER or LEVER. The species intended by this name seems a 

 matter cf uncertainty. Montagu (" Orn. Diet,," Supp., 1813) 

 is the authority for stating that it was an Ibis, called " Liver," 

 and that the conjunction of the name with the " pool " 

 on which it was obtained, gives rise to the name of the 

 city of Liverpool. Newton was of opinion that Lever was 

 the correct spelling and that the SPOONBILL was intended, 

 a bird which of course frequented such places and moreover 

 bred in England in ancient times. Newton cites Randle 



