218 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



SLAB. A North Country name for the WRYNECK. (Swainson.) 



SLATE-BACKED THROSTLE : The FIELDFARE. (Yorkshire.) 



SLAVONIAN GREBE [No. 337]. Occurs as " Sclavonian 

 Grebe " in Montagu's " Orn. Diet." (1802) and the name is 

 often so spelt. It is the Horned Grebe of Latham and the 

 " Black-and-white Dobchick " of Edwards. 



SLEIGHTHOLME THROSTLE: The SNOW-BUNTING. (Arken- 

 garthdale, Yorkshire.) 



SLENDER-BILLED CURLEW [No. 407]. A West Siberian 

 species of which three examples were obtained in Kent in 1910. 



SLENDER-BILLED NUTCRACKER. See NUTCRACKER. 



SLIGHT FALCON. An old falconer's name for the PEREGRINE 

 FALCON. (Sebright.) 



SLY GOOSE : The SHELD-DUCK. (Orkneys.) From its crafti- 

 ness. Sly Duck is also a Yorkshire name for the species. 



SMALL BARRED WOODPECKER: The LESSER SPOTTED 

 WOODPECKER. (Provincial.) 



SMALL BROWN GULL : The immature COMMON TERN. (Pen- 

 nant.) 



SMALL CURLEW. A name for the BLACK-TAILED GOD WIT ; 

 also the ESKIMO-CURLEW. 



SMALL DIVER : The SLAVONIAN GREBE. (Humber.) 



SMALL DOUCKER : The LITTLE GREBE. (East Lothian.) 



SMALL DUCKER : The LITTLE GREBE. (Yorkshire.) 



SMALLER REDPOLL LINNET: The LESSER REDPOLL. 

 (Macgillivray.) 



SMALL GREY GOOSE : The BEAN-GOOSE. (Provincial.) 

 Occurs in Montagu. 



SMALL MAA : The COMMON GULL. (Shetlands.) Maa= 

 Mew or Gull. 



SMALL PURL : The LITTLE TERN. (Norfolk.) 



SMALL SPOTTED WATER-HEN : The SPOTTED CRAKE. (Pen- 

 nant.) 



SMALL-STRAW. A Yorkshire name for the smaller warblers 

 which build nests of dried grass, etc. 



SMALL WOOD-PIGEON : The STOCK-DOVE. (Northumberland.) 



SMALSTER: The WHITETHROAT. (Cheshire.) Perhaps a 

 corruption of " Small Straw." (See below.) 



SMASTRAY (=SMALL STRAW) : The GARDEN- WARBLER. 

 (Cheshire.) Small Straw is a name for this bird, as well 

 as the WHITETHROAT and other species, in Yorkshire. 

 From the materials used for the nest. 



