210 DICTIONARY OF NAMES OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



SEA GUL or SEA COB: The COMMON GULL. (Merrett.) 

 Turner (1544) also has " Se-cob or see-gell," and he tells 

 us the species is so named from countrymen likening their 

 cries to the word " cob." 



SEA GULL : Properly the COMMON GULL, but loosely applied 

 to any species of Gull. The name occurs as " Sea Gull " 

 in Barlow's plates (1855). 



SEA-GULL HAWK: The HEN-HARRIER. (Connemara.) 



SEA HEN : The young or female of the COMMON SCOTER 

 (Northumberland); also the COMMON GUILLEMOT 

 (Northumberland, Durham and East Lothian). Occurs in 

 Albin for the latter species. 



SEA KITTLE : The JttTTIWAKE GULL. (Norfolk and Suffolk.) 

 SEA-LARK : The RINGED PLOVER. (Merrett to Pennant.) 

 Still a provincial name. Also applied sometimes to the 

 ROCK-PIPIT; the SHORE-LARK (Yorkshire); the 

 DUNLIN (Cheshire, North Ireland, Scotland) ; and the 

 SNOW-BUNTING, SANDERL1NG and the TURNSTONE 

 (Ireland). 



SEA LINNET : The SNOW-BUNTING. (Cheshire.) 

 SEA LINTIE : The ROCK-PIPIT. (East Lothian.) 

 SEAMAS RUA'. A Gaelic name for the PUFFIN. (Western Isles) 



lit. " Red James." 



SEA MAW or SEA MEW : The HERRING-GULL, the COMMON 

 GULL and the BLACK-HEADED GULL (Scotland) ; also 

 the COMMON GULL (Yorkshire). 



SEA MOUSE : The PURPLE SANDPIPER. (Northumberland.) 

 Bolam says it is an occasional name for the species from the 

 fearless manner in which the bird runs about the weed- 

 covered rocks within a few feet of the intruders. Also 

 a name for the DUNLIN (Lancashire and Dumfries). 

 SEA NANPIE : The OYSTERCATCHER. (Yorkshire.) 

 SEA PARROT: The PUFFIN. (Northumberland, Yorkshire, 



Norfolk.) 

 SEA PEEK : The DUNLIN. (Forfar.) 



SEA PHEASANT : The LONG-TAILED DUCK (Northumberland, 

 Yorkshire) ; also the PINTAIL (Hampshire, Yorkshire and 

 Dorsetshire). Occurs in Willughby for the latter species. 



SEA-PIE : The OYSTERCATCHER was formerly so called, by 

 the older writers from Willughby to Pennant. It is still 

 a common provincial name for the species. 



SEA-PIET: The OYSTERCATCHER. (Northumberland.) 



