216 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



SIBILOUS BUSH-HOPPER. A name for the GRASSHOPPER- 

 WARBLER. 



SIDANGYNFFON. A Welsh name for the WAXWING. 



SIFFSAFF : The CHIFFCHAFF. (North Wales). Imitative of 

 its song. 



SIGLDIGWT. A name for the PIED WAGTAIL and WHITE 

 WAGTAIL in South Wales ; lit. " shake-tail." 



SIGLEN FELEN : The YELLOW WAGTAIL. (North Wales) 

 lit. " yellow wagtail." 



SIGLEN LLWYD : The GREY WAGTAIL. (North Wales) lit. 

 " grey wagtail." 



SILK TAIL : The WAXWING. It seems to occur first in the 

 " Phil. Trans." for 1685, p. 1161. 



SILVER-EYED GUILLEMOT or SILVER-EYED SCOUT : The Ringed 

 Guillemot. The latter is a local name amoug the West of 

 Scotland fishermen (Gray), and is given as a Yorkshire 

 name by Nelson and Clarke. 



SILVER GREBE: The RED-THROATED DIVER. (Kent.) 

 According to Swainson. 



SILVER OWL : The BARN-OWL. (Forfar.) 



SILVER PLOVER : The GREY PLOVER. (Cheshire, Yorkshire, 

 and Scotland.) 



SILVER POCHARD : The SCAUP-DUCK. (Yorkshire.) 



SILVERY GULL: The LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL 

 (Pennant); also the HERRING-GULL (Ireland). 



SINGING TITLARK. A name for the TREE-PIPIT. 



SISKIN [No. 19]. The derivation is probably from the Dan. 

 Sidsken, or Swedish Siska, a chirper. The name " Siskin " 

 occurs in Turner (1544), also in Merrett and Willughby. 



SITHE-BILL: The GLOSSY IBIS. (Willughby.) 



SIT-YE-DOWN : The GREAT TITMOUSE. (Provincial.) Imi- 

 tative of its note. 



SKAIT-BIRD: The ARCTIC SKUA. (Old Scots.) Perhaps 

 from skite=to mute. 



SKEEL DUCK or SKEEL GOOSE : The SHELD-DUCK. (Scot- 

 land). Occurs in Sibbald as Skeeling Goose. 



SKEER DEVTL or SKIR DEVIL : The SWIFT. (Devonshire, 

 Somersetshire. ) 



SKELDRAKE : The SHELD-DUCK (Bewick.) Also the OYSTER- 

 CATCHER. (Orkneys.) From the parti-coloured plumage. 



SKELL DUCK : The SHELD-DUCK. (Northumberland, York- 

 shire.) 



