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Sea Lark: the Rock Pipit and 
Ring Plover 
» Mall, Mew, or Mow: the Gull 
» Parrot: the Puffin 
» Pheasant: the Pintail Duck 
» Pie: the Oyster-catcher 
» Sandpiper : the Purple Sand- 
piper ; 
» Snipe: the Dunlin 
» Swallow: the Tern 
» Titling : the Rock Pipit 
» tLurtle-dove: the Guillemot 
and Rotche 
» Wigeon: the Scaup 
», Woodcock: the Godwit 
Seaford Goose : the Brent Bernicle 
Secondaries: the quill-feathers 
arising from the second joint of 
the wing 
Sedge-bird, Sedge Warbler, or 
Sedge Wren 
Selninger Sandpiper: the Purple 
Sandpiper 
Serrator: the Ivory Gull 
Serrated: toothed like a saw 
Serrula: the Red-breasted Mer- 
ganser 
Sheldapple: the Crossbill 
This name and “Shelly” are 
sometimes given to the Chaf- 
finch 
Shepster: the Starling 
Shilfa: the Chaffinch 
Shoeing-horn : the Avocet 
Shore-bird: the Sand Martin 
4 Pipit: the Rock Pipit 
Short-eared or -horned Owl 
Shrieker : the Black-tailed Godwit 
Shrimp-catcher: the Lesser Tern 
Shrite : the Missel Thrush 
Silvery Gull: the Herring Gull 
Skart : the Cormorant, and Shag 
Skein: a flight of Geese 
Skiddaw: the Guillemot 
Skiddy Cock, Skilty, or Skit: the 
Water-Rail 
Skite: the Yellow Hammer 
GLOSSARY 
Skitty : the Spotted Crake 
Skrabe : the Black Guillemot 
Snake-bird: the Wryneck 
Snite: the Snipe 
Snow-bird: the Ivory Gull 
» Bunting: Flake, or Fleck 
Snuff-headed Wigeon: the Po- 
chard 
Solan, or Solent Goose : the Gannet 
Solitary Snipe: the Great Snipe 
Song Thrush: the Common 
Thrush 
Sparlm-fowl : the female Mergan- 
ser 
Spectacle Duck: the Goldeneye 
Speculum: the bright feathers 
which form a kind of disc of 
the wing of the Ducks 
Speckled-bellied Goose : the White- 
fronted Goose 
» Diver: the young of the 
Great Northern Diver 
Spider-diver : the Dabchick 
Speney: the Petrel 
Spink: the Chaffinch 
Spoonbill, White 
Spotted-necked Turtle Dove: the 
Turtle Dove 
Sprat Loon, the young of the 
Great Northern Diver 
» Mew: the Kittiwake Gull 
Spurre: the Tern 
Standgale, or Stannel: the Kestrel 
Starling, Common, Stare, or 
Starenil 
Staynil: the Starling 
Steel Duck, Larger : the Goosander 
» » Lesser : the Merganser 
Stint : the Dunlin, or any similar 
bird, is often so called on the 
coast 
Stock-Dove 
Stonechacker or Stoneclink: Stone- 
chat 
Stone Curlew: the Great Plover 
Stonegale: the Kestrel 
Stone Hawk: the Merlin 
