SEA—SEMI. 74 ak 
Sea Piczon: The BLACK GUILLEMOT. (Holy Island and 
Ireland.) The name is applied to the ROCK-DOVE in 
Treland, and the GREY PLOVER (Yorkshire). 
Sea Prror: The OYSTERCATCHER. Swainson thinks it is 
a corruption of Sea-piet. 
SEA Prover: The GREY PLOVER. From its frequenting 
the sea-shore. ; 
Sea Snre—E: The DUNLIN (North England, Scotland); also 
the KNOT (Dublin). 
Sea-Swattow: The COMMON 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 STORM-PETREL. 
SeatHor. A Cornish name for a Diver or Grebe. 
Sea Tittrnc: The ROCK-PIPIT. (Fleming.) 
Sea-TurtLte: The BLACK GUILLEMOT. (Willughby.) 
Seave-caP: The REED-BUNTING. (Thirsk, Yorkshire.) 
“ Seave ”=rush. 
Sea-Woopcock: 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). 
Macgillivray 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 ” (m1, p. 419) and in later authors. 
SrED-BiRD: The COMMON GULL. (Scotland.) From its 
habit of following the plough. Also the PIED WAGTAIL 
(Yorkshire). 
Secce or Hecss-suece. 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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