SEA — SE>n. 2 1 1 



Sea Pigeon : The BLACK GUILLEMOT. (Holy Island and 

 Ireland.) The name is applied to the ROCK-DOVE in 

 Ireland, and the GREY PLOVER (Yorkshire). 



Sea Pilot : The OYSTERCATCHER. Swainson thinks it is 

 a corruption of Sea-piet. 



Sea Plover: The GREY PLOVER. From its frequenting 

 the sea-shore. 



Sea Snipe : The DUXLIN (North England, Scotland) ; also 

 the KNOT (Dublin). 



Sea-Swallow : The COM^ION TERN, ARCTIC TERN and 

 LITTLE TERN. (Provincial.) Occurs in Willughby and 

 Ray for the first-named, who also call it Hirundo marina. 

 The salmon fishermen in the West of Ireland believe that 

 when the sea-swallows are numerous salmon will also be 

 plentiful. According to Hett, the name is sometimes 

 applied to the STORIM-PETREL. 



Seathor. a Cornish name for a Diver or Grebe. 



Sea Titling : The ROCK-PIPIT. (Fleming.) 



Sea-Turtle : The BLACK GUILLEMOT. (Willughby.) 



Seave-cap: The REED-BUNTING. (Thirsk, Yorkshire.) 

 " Seave "=rush. 



Sea- Woodcock : The BAR-TAILED GODWIT. (Montagu.) 

 It is a Shetland name for the Godwits. 



Sedge-bird or Sedge- Wren : The SEDGE-WARBLER. 

 (Provincial.) Sedge Marine is also a Norfolk name, and Seg- 

 bird a Yorkshire one. Sedge-bird occurs in Albin (1738). 

 MacgilU\Tay calls it Sedge-Reedling. 



SEDGE-WARBLER [No. 139]. This species is mentioned by 

 Willughby under the name of Salicaria and is the Willow- 

 Lark of Pennant (ed. 1766), while it is called Sedge Warbler 

 in his "Arctic Zoology" (n, p. 419) and in later authors. 



Seed-bird: The COMMON GULL. (Scotland.) From its 

 habit of following the plough. Also the PIED WAGTAIL 

 (Yorkshire). 



Segge or Heges-sugge. An old name for the HEDGE- 

 SPARROW (and perhaps other small birds). From A.Sax. 

 Sugge, Old Eng. heisugge. Swainson gives it as a Devon 

 name. 



Selninger Sandpiper : The PURPLE SANDPIPER. (Latham.) 



SEMI-PALMATED SANDPIPER [No. 384]. An Arctic- 

 American species, first recorded for England in 1907. 



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