142 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
Lesser Movuntary Fincu or Brampiincg: The SNOW- 
BUNTING. (Willughby.) 
LesseR Prrrycuaps: The CHIFFCHAFF. (Pennant and 
Montagu.) 
Less—ER RED-HEADED LinnetT: The LESSER REDPOLL 
(Willughby, Pennant); also the TWITE (Rutty). 
LESSER REDPOLL [No. 23]. It is found in Montagu (1802). 
Occurs in Willughby as Lesser Red-headed Linnet. The 
name has reference to its small sizé and red crown, or 
oe poll.” 
Lesser REEp-Sparrow : The SEDGE-WARBLER (?). Occurs 
in Willughby. Montagu ascribes it to the REED- 
WARBLER. 
LiEssER SADDLE-BACK : The LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL. 
(Yorkshire.) From its dark saddle-shaped mantle. 
LesseR Sra-Swattow: The LITTLE TERN. Occurs in 
Willughby and Ray. 
LzessER Snow Goose. See SNOW-GOOSE. 
Lesser Sooty Tern. A tropical species of which a single example 
is said, on somewhat imperfect evidence, to have been 
taken on a lightship at the mouth of the Thames in 1875. 
LEssER SporreD Eacir. See SPOTTED EAGLE. 
Lesser SpotreD WATER Rat: The SPOTTED CRAKE. 
(Bewick.) 
LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER [No. 212, British 
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker]. The name refers to 
the variegated black-and-white upper-plumage and_ to 
its being of less size than the GREAT SPOTTED WOOD- 
PECKER. It occurs in Albin (1738). MHartert has 
separated the resident British race from the Continental 
forms, hence the change of name. 
LesseR TERN: The LITTLE TERN. 
LesseR TootHep Diver. A provincial name for the RED- 
BREASTED MERGANSER. (Montagu.) From its ser- 
rated bill and lesser size than the GOOSANDER. 
Lesser TREE-LARK: The TREE-PIPIT. 
LesseER WaTER-SPARROW: The SEDGE-WARBLER. 
LESSER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE [No. 276]. A very rare 
straggler, closely allied to the WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE, 
but of smaller size. 
LESSER WHITETHROAT [No. 148]. The name occurs first 
in Latham’s ‘“‘ Synopsis ” (Supp., p. 185). 
