208 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 
ScotcH NicHTINGALE: The SEDGE-WARBLER. From its 
singing at night. 
Scotch Wren: The WILLOW-WARBLER. (Pennant.) 
Scorer : The COMMON SCOTER. (Pennant, Montagu, etc.) 
ScottisH CRESTED TrtmousE. See CRESTED TITMOUSE. 
ScoTtTisH CrossBILL. See COMMON CROSSBILL. 
Scout. A Cornish name for the KITE. 
Scoutron Prewit or Scoutton Pre: The BLACK-HEADED 
GULL. (Norfolk.) From its breeding at Scoulton Mere. 
Scout: The COMMON GUILLEMOT (Yorkshire and Scot- 
land); also applied to the RAZORBILL (Scotland). 
Sibbald mentions the latter under the name of Auk, “ the 
Scout of our country folk.” Willughby prints it Skout, 
and gives it as a Yorkshire name. The word as used is of 
Scandinavian origin and signifies to drive away. Also a 
Farn Island name for the PUFFIN. 
ScoUTIALLIN, SCOUTY-ALLAN, or ScouTY-AULIN: The ARCTIC 
SKUA. (Orkney and Shetland.) 
ScraBER: The LITTLE AUK. (St. Kilda.) Also the MANX 
SHEARWATER (Hebrides); and the BLACK GUIL- 
LEMOT (Hebrides, East Lothian). Said to be from its 
Norwegian name, skrabe, or scraper, because it scrapes a 
hole in the sand for its nest. 
ScrRAYE: The COMMON TERN. From its cry. 
ScREAMER, SCREECHER, SCREECH Martin, SQUEALER. English 
provincial names for the SWIFT, from its harsh screaming 
note. 
ScrEAMING OwL: The BARN-OWL. (Yorkshire.) 
ScrRECH y COED. A Welsh name for the JAY; lit. “ wood 
screech.” 
ScrEECH, or SCREECH THRUSH: The MISTLE-THRUSH. So 
called from its loud song. Screech-bird or Screech-Thrush 
is also a Stirling name for the FIELDFARE. 
ScrrecH Hawk: The NIGHTJAR. (Berks. and Bucks.) 
ScREECH OwL, ScCRICH-OWLE, or SCRITCH-OWL. Properly the 
BARN-OWL. Sibbald applies the name to the TAWNY 
OWL. The former occurs in Merrett (1667) as the ‘‘ Screech 
or Screeching Owl.” Jn old English the name owl occurs 
as “ Oule,” ‘“‘Ouul,” or “Ule,” the latter being the Saxon 
name. In Rowland’s “More Knaves Yet” (ca. 1613) 
occurs :-— 
Wise Gosling, did but heare the scrich-owle crye, 
And told his wife, and straight a pigge did dye. 
