206 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



SAVI'S WARBLER [No. 131]. This species was first recorded 

 from the Cambridgeshire Fens in 1840 and was known to 

 breed there up to the year 1856. It was named in honour 

 of Savi, the Italian ornithologist, who first described the 

 species in 1824. The name appears in Yarrell (1843). 



SAW-BEER: The GOLDEN PLOVER. Mr. Robert Godfrey 

 informs me that this name is used " in one locality lying 

 to the south of the Pentland Hills in this county (Mid- 

 Lothian) and is distinctly an effort to syllable the wail of 

 the bird." It recalls Saxby's version " Oh dee-ar." 



SAWBILL: The GOOSANDER and the RED-BREASTED 

 MERGANSER. (Scotland, Yorkshire, and Northumber- 

 land.) Also occurs as Saw-neb (Aberdeen) for both species 

 and Sawbill Wigeon (Galway) and Sawbill Duck (York- 

 shire) for the RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 



SAWFINCH, SAWFITCH, SAWFILER, SAW-SHARPENER, SAW-WHET : 

 The GREAT TITMOUSE. (Provincial.) So called from 

 its song resembling the sound of saw-sharpening. According 

 to Swainson, in some parts of the country these notes are 

 considered to portend rain, but Bolam says that on the 

 Border the reverse is the belief. 



SCALD CROW : The HOODED CROW. (Ireland.) 



SCALE DRAKE : The SHELD-DUCK. (Orkneys.) 



SCALLOP-TOED SANDPIPER : The GREY PHALAROPE. (Pen- 

 nant, 1766.) 



SCAMEL. Occurs in Shakespeare (" The Tempest," act n, sc. 2) 

 and has been erroneously surmised to be intended for 

 " stannel " (the KESTREL), q.v. Mr. H. Durrant tells me 

 that in Norfolk the female of the BAR-TAILED GOD WIT 

 is known as the " scamel." Swainson gives " Scammel " 

 as a Norfolk name for the Bar-Tailed Godwit. Newton 

 thinks it a misprint for " Seamel " (i.e. Sea-Mew) or 

 " Stannel " (a Kestrel). 



SCANDINAVIAN CHIFFCHAFF. See CHIFFCHAFF. 



SCANDINAVIAN ROCK-PIPIT [No. 73]. This Scandinavian 

 form of our ROCK-PIPIT is known to occur in our Islands 

 on migration. It was first recorded as British by Booth. 



SCARBH (pron. scarrav) : The SHAG. (Western Isles of Scotland.) 



SCARE-CROW : The BLACK TERN (Willughby) ; the 

 HOODED CROW (Montagu). 



SCARF : The SHAG (Shetlands) and also the CORMORANT. 

 From Gael, scarbh, Icel. Skarfr. Swainson, however, derives 

 both Scarf and Scart from A.Sax. scega, a beard, derivate 

 of SHAG. 



