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GLOSSARY 



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 

 ,, Turtle-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 

 berrator : 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 

 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 



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 (tuU 



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 



