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STONE-FALCON : The immature MERLIN. (Cheshire, Yorkshire, 

 North Wales, Scotland.) Occurs in Willughby. 



STONEGALL : The KESTREL. An equivalent of " stannel " 

 (q.v.). Occurs in Merrett, who calls the species a " Stannel 

 or Stonegall." 



STONEHATCH: The RINGED PLOVER. (Provincial.) So 

 called because it lines the hollow it makes for its eggs 

 with small stones. 



STONE-HAWK : The MERLIN (Cheshire, Yorkshire) ; also the 

 KESTREL (Cheshire). 



STONE-PLOVER : The BAR-TAILED GOD WIT. Occurs in Wil- 

 lughby. The Stone Plover of Ray's " Synopsis Avium " 

 (p. 105), however, appears to be the BLACK-TAILED 

 GODWIT. The name has also been used to denote both 

 the RINGED PLOVER and the STONE-CURLEW 

 (England), also the GREY PLOVER (Ireland). 



STONEPRICK or STONEPRICKER : The STONECHAT. (Wirral, 

 Cheshire.) 



STONE-RAW : The TURNSTONE. (Armagh.) 



STONE-RUNNER: The RINGED PLOVER (Norfolk) and 

 the DOTTEREL (Norfolk). 



STONE-SMICH or STONE-SMITH : The STONECHAT. The latter 

 form occurs in Bewick (1797) and the former in Willughby. 



STONE THRUSH : The MISTLE-THRUSH. (Cheshire, Dorset.) 



STORK. See WHITE STORK. 



STORM-BIRD: The MISTLE-THRUSH. (West Sussex.) Swain- 

 son also gives it as a Norfolk name for the FIELDFARE. 

 (See Storm Cock.) 



STORM COCK : The MISTLE-THRUSH is known by this name 

 throughout the greater part of England (particularly the 

 Northern and Midland counties) but also locally in Hamp- 

 shire, Sussex and other Southern counties, because it usually 

 commences to sing in January and continues through the 

 rough weather of February and March ; generally, more- 

 over, singing from the topmost wind-rocked branch of a 

 still-leafless tree. Swainson also gives it as a name for the 

 FIELDFARE in Shropshire and Scotland. 



STORM-FINCH : The STORM-PETREL. (Orkneys). Occurs in 

 Bewick. 



STORM-GULL. A name for the COMMON GULL. (Hett.) 



STORM-PETREL [No. 319]. Occurs in Jenyns (1835) as 

 " Storm-Petrel." Pennant in his folio edition (1766) calls 

 it Little Petrel, but in the later editions it is called Stormy 



