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sea-pigeon
1. A name given (locally) to various birds, as the rock-dove, Columba livia, the black guillemot, Uria grylle, the grey kittiwake, Larus canus.
1620J. Mason New-found-land in Mem. (1887) 151 The sea fowles are gulles, sea pigeons. 1664Hubert Catal. Rarities (1665) 9 A Sea-Pidgeon of Green-land. 1767tr. Cranz' Greenland I. 84 The sea-pidgeon..is like the willock in almost every thing, except its being less. 1819Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. XI. 23 Sea pigeon. (Columba littoralis.) Ibid. 24 It occurs in abundance in New Guinea and Java; by the natives of the latter, it is distinguished by the name of the Sea Pigeon. 1861Coues in Proc. Philad. Acad. 256 They [Black Guillemots] are universally known to the natives and fishermen [of Labrador] as ‘Sea-pigeons’. 1870Gillmore tr. Figuier's Reptiles & Birds 285 The Grey Kittiwake (Larus canus) is often called the Sea Pigeon. 1885Swainson Prov. Names Birds 168 Rock Dove (Columba livia)... Sea pigeon (Ireland).
2. U.S. A large green sea-slug.
1885C. F. Holder Marvels Anim. Life 169 One of the sea-slugs, a great green creature, commonly known on the [Florida] reef as the sea-pigeon. |