224 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



SPOONBILL or SPOON-BEAK: The SHOVELER. (Norfolk.) 

 Coward and Oldham give Spoonbill as a local Cheshire 

 name. 



SPOONBILL DUCK : The SCAUP-DUCK. (East Lothian.) 

 SPOTTED CRAKE [No. 455]. The name is found in Yarrell 

 (1st ed.). It occurs as the Small Spotted Water Hen in 

 Pennant (fo. ed. 1766), and as Spotted Gallinule in the 

 later editions. It is the " Wyn-kernel " of Willughby. 

 Bewick calls it the Water Crake, and it is also known as 

 " Spotted Rail " or " Lesser Spotted Water Rail." The 

 names are derived from the small white spots sprinkled over 

 the plumage. 



SPOTTED DUCK : The HARLEQUIN-DUCK. (Hett.) 

 SPOTTED EAGLE [No. 241]. This form (A. maculatus) occurs 

 under the name of " Spotted Eagle " in Latham's " Synopsis " 

 (i, p. 13). It is sometimes called the Larger Spotted Eagle. 

 The name " spotted " arises from the buffish spots on the 

 plumage of the immature bird. The closely allied Lesser 

 Spotted Eagle does not appear to have occurred in the 

 British Islands. 



SPOTTED FALCON : The PEREGRINE FALCON. Occurs in 

 Montagu. Spotted-winged Falcon is a name for the same 

 species found in Latham. 



SPOTTED FLYCATCHER [No. 114]. The name Spotted 

 Flycatcher is first given by Pennant (1776) to this species ; 

 the word Flycatcher, as an Anglicization of Muscicapa 

 dates back, however, to Ray. The name " spotted " 

 originates in the numerous striations on head and under- 

 parts, giving it a spotted appearance. 



SPOTTED GUILLEMOT : The BLACK GUILLEMOT (winter). 



SPOTTED HERON : The immature NIGHT-HERON. (Latham.) 



SPOTTED REDSHANK [No. 395]. The name appears to 

 occur first in Pennant's " British Zoology " (8vo ed., No. 186) ; 

 in the folio edition he calls it Spotted Sandpiper. It is the 

 Spotted Snipe of Latham and Lewin, and the Dusky Sand- 

 piper of Selby. The names are derived from the general 

 spotted appearance of the plumage. 



SPOTTED SANDPIPER [No. 388]. The name is found in 

 Pennant and succeeding authors to Yarrell, and originates 

 in the blackish spots on the under-parts, especially the 

 breast. 



SPOTTED SKITTY: The SPOTTED CRAKE. (Devonshire.) 

 Skitty is from skit=to slide : from its stealthy habits. 



