146 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
Little Petre: The STORM-PETREL. (Pennant.) 
LittLe Pickie: The LITTLE TERN. (Forfarshire.) 
LirtteE Rep Hawk: The KESTREL. (Yorkshire.) 
Littte RepPoLte Linnet: The LESSER REDPOLL. 
Lirtrte Rine Dorrrett: The LITTLE RINGED PLOVER. 
(Gould.) 
LITTLE RINGED PLOVER [No. 359]. The name is found in 
Jenyns (1835) and also Yarrell (1st ed.) and later writers. 
LitTLE SANDPIPER: The LITTLE STINT ; also TEMMINCK’S 
STINT. (Montagu.) 
Little Snrre: The DUNLIN. (Swaledale and Arkengarthdale, 
Yorkshire.) 
LITTLE STINT [No. 375]. This name appears in Bewick 
(1797). It is the Little Sandpiper of Pennant, Montagu, 
Latham, etc., and the “ Minute Tringa ” of Selby. 
LITTLE TERN [No. 421]. “ Little Tern” seems to be first 
found in Gould’s “‘ Birds of Europe ” (pt. 8, 1834). Pennant 
(1766) and succeeding authors to Yarrell (1843) generally 
call this species “Lesser Tern.” It is the Lesser Sea- 
Swallow of Willughby. 
LittLE Wuaur: The WHIMBREL. (Kast Lothian) lit. 
“Little Curlew.” 
Lirtte Waitt Heron: The LITTLE EGRET (Willughby) ; 
also the young BUFF-BACKED HERON (Montagu). 
LittrL—E Woopcock : The GREAT SNIPE.  (Treland.) 
Littte WoopreckeR: The LESSER SPOTTED WOOD- 
PECKER (Yorkshire) ; the TREECREEPER (Marton- 
in-Cleveland, Yorkshire). 
LitrteE Wooppiz: The LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. 
(Hampshire.) The GREAT SPOTTED WOODPECKER 
is called ‘“*‘ Woodpie ” in the same county. 
LittLeE Wren: The GOLDEN-CRESTED WREN. (Loftus- 
in-Cleveland, Yorkshire.) 
Liver or Lever. The species intended by this name seems a 
matter cf uncertainty. Montagu (‘‘ Orn. Dict.,” Supp., 1813) 
is the authority for stating that it was an Ibis, called “ Liver,” 
and that the conjunction of the name with the “pool ” 
on which it was obtained, gives rise to the name of the 
city of Liverpool. Newton was of opinion that Lever was 
the correct spelling and that the SPOONBILL was intended, 
a bird which of course frequented such places and moreover 
bred in England in ancient times. Newton cites Randle 
