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SPOTTED SNIPE. The SPOTTED REDSHANK is so called by 

 many old authors. 



SPOTTED STABLING: The STARLING. (Macgillivray.) 



SPOTTED WATER-HEN : The SPOTTED CRAKE. 



SPOWE: The WHIMBREL. From Icel. Spoi. Stevenson 

 gives this as an ancient Norfolk name for the species. 



SPRAT LOON or SPRAT BORER : The RED-THROATED DIVER. 

 (Essex, Yorkshire.) Hett gives Sprat Lumme as a name 

 for the BLACK-THROATED DIVER. Swainson gives 

 Spratoon as a Norfolk name for the former species. 



SPRATTER: The COMMON GUILLEMOT. (Hampshire.) From 

 its fondness for small fry (Swainson). 



SPRIG-TAIL: The PINTAIL. (Provincial.) 



SPRING DOTTEREL : The DOTTEREL. (Yorkshire.) 



SPRING WAGTAIL: The YELLOW WAGTAIL. (Yorkshire.) 

 From its migratory nature. 



SPRITE : The GREEN WOODPECKER. (Suffolk.) Probably 

 a corruption of Specht (q.v.). 



SPTJG, SPRUG, SPRONG, SPRIG, SPTJRDIE, SPYNG : The HOUSE- 

 SPARROW. (Scotland.) Spug is also a Nottinghamshire 

 name for the species, Spuggy a Yorkshire, and Sprig and 

 Spug Northumberland names. 



SPURRE : The COMMON TERN. (North Ireland.) From its 

 cry. 



Spur-winged Goose. Examples of this tropical African species 

 are sometimes obtained in our islands, but as it has been 

 introduced here they can hardly be genuine visitors. The 

 name is found in Bewick, Yarrell and other authors. 



SQUACCO HERON [No. 265]. The first mention of the name 

 is to be found in Willughby (1678) who calls it " the Heron 

 which they call Sguacco in the Valleys of Malalbergo," 

 and who derives the species from Aldrovandus. The modern 

 spelling Squacco dates from Latham and is perhaps a mis- 

 spelling of Sguacco. Montagu (" Orn. Diet.," Supp.) spells it 

 " Sguacco." 



SQUAWKING THRUSH : The MISTLE-THRUSH. (Isle of Wight.) 



SQUEAK THRUSH : The MISTLE-THRUSH. (Wiltshire.) 



SQUEALER: The SWIFT. (Cheshire.) 



STAG : A Norfolk name for the WREN ; also the male RUFF 

 until it acquires its wattles in the second year (Hett). 



STANCHEL: The KESTREL. (Sibbald.) 



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