138 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
Lapy Lentity : The GARDEN-WARBLER is so called in some 
parts of Northumberland. (Bolam.) 
Lapy Snree: The COMMON SNIPE. (Cheshire.) 
LADY WITH THE TWELVE FLOUNCES. Swainson gives this as a 
Shropshire name for the GOLDFINCH. 
LANCEOLATED WARBLER [No 134]. A Siberian species 
which has occurred recently in Great Britain. 
Lanp Bunting: The CORN-BUNTING. (Provincial.) 
Lanp Cormorant: The GOOSANDER. (Dublin.) 
Lanp Curtew: The STONE-CURLEW. 
Lanp Daw: The CARRION-CROW. (Northants.) 
Lanp DorrereL: The DOTTEREL (Spurn, Yorkshire.) 
LAND-DRAKE: The LAND-RAIL. (Shropshire; Ackworth, 
Yorkshire.) 
Lanp Hartan: The RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. (Wex- 
ford.) Harlan is a form of “ Harle” (q.v.). 
Lanp Hen: The LAND-RAIL. (Willughby.) 
Lanp Lavrock : The COMMON SANDPIPER and the RINGED 
PLOVER. (Scotland.) Lavrock—Lark. 
Lanp Mav: The BLACK-HEADED GULL. (Kast Yorkshire.) 
LAND-RAIL [No. 454]. Commonly known also as the Corn- 
Crake (q.v.). Occurs in Willughby (1678) as Land Rail, 
Land-Hen, and Daker Hen. Most subsequent writers from 
Pennant to Montagu call it the Crake Gallinule. Montagu 
also gives Land-Rail, but as a provincial name. Rail is 
from Fr. Rale, Germ. Ralle, from Low Latin Rallus. It is 
mentioned by Turner, who calls it Crex after Aristotle, and 
gives ‘‘ Daker Hen” as the English name for it. He well 
describes its cry when he says that it “in spring as well 
as early summer makes no other cry among the corn and 
flax than crex, crex.” In Scotland if its call is frequently 
heard it is regarded as a sign of rain. A French name is 
“ Roy de Cailles ” (—King of the Quails), from an old belief 
that the Quails selected a Land-Rail to lead their migrations. 
A Scots belief was that the bird did not migrate, but became 
torpid in the winter. Newton says, “formerly it seems 
to have been a popular belief in England that the Land 
Rail in autumn transformed itself into a Water Rail, 
resuming its own character in spring.” This belief seems 
to still prevail in Ireland. The Land Rail is considered a 
lucky bird on the Scottish Borders, where the saying runs :— 
The Lark, the Corn Crake, or the Grouse, 
Will bring good luck to ilka house. 
