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Lesser WHITE-WINGED GULL: The ICELAND GULL. (Yarrell.) 
Less Tirmouse: The BLUE TITMOUSE. (Merrett.) Turner’s 
Less Titmouse is apparently the LONG-TAILED TIT- 
MOUSE, as he says it has a long tail. Mr. Evans thought 
it to be the MARSH- or COAL-TITMOUSE. 
LEVANTINE SHEARWATER [No. 329]. A Mediterranean 
sub-species of the MANX SHEARWATER, which occurs 
casually on our coasts (see Saunders, “‘ Manual,” 2nd ed., 
pp. 741-2). Itis the Ame damnée of the Turks, who believe 
that the souls of the wicked pass into these birds and are 
doomed to wander for ever over the waters. 
LiatH-Troise. A Gaelic name for the FIELDFARE. 
LicH-FowL: The NIGHTJAR. (Cheshire and Shropshire.) 
See “‘ Gabble-Ratchet.” 
Littie-cock or Lintre-cock: The CORMORANT. (Staithes, 
Yorkshire.) 
LiyBeneocH or Limos BEN GocH. A Welsh name for the 
LINNET ; lit. ‘‘ redheaded Linnet.”” In North Wales the 
name is applied to the LESSER REDPOLL. 
Line-Birp, Line-Tit, or Linerze: The MEADOW-PIPIT. 
(Cumberland, West Yorkshire.) 
Line Linnet: The TWITE. (Ribblesdale, Yorkshire.) 
Links Goos—E: The COMMON SHELD-DUCK. (Orkneys.) 
Because it frequents the “links” or sandy plains near 
the sea. 
LINNET [No. 27]. So called from its partiality for the seed of 
flax. Der. of A.Sax. Linete=flax and Linet-wige—flax- 
hopper, from the latter of which is derived the northern 
provincial name of “ Lintwhite.” The name occurs as 
“Linot ” in Turner (1544) and as “ Linet” in Merrett’s 
list. Plot (1677) has “ Linnet,” while Willughby calls it 
the ‘*‘common Linnet,” as does also Sibbald. It is also 
the Greater Red-headed Linnet of Willughby and others, 
and the Greater Redpole of Montagu. According to 
Swainson, “‘ Linnet ” is a local name for the GOLDFINCH 
in Shropshire. 
Linnet Fryco: The LINNET. (Provincial.) 
Lintiz: The LINNET (Scotland) ; also the TWITE (Orkneys 
and Shetlands). 
LintwuiteE: The LINNET. (Orkneys.) As an older Scottish 
name it occurs as “ Lintquhit,”’ the derivation being also 
‘from A.Sax. Linet-wige (see under LINNET). According to 
Swainson Lintwhite is a Suffolk name for the SKY-LARK, 
