. A dictionary of birds . the account in Bronns Thier-reich (), but above all to Kesslers Osteologie der Vogelfilsse, inthe Bulletin of the Naturalists Society of Moscow for 1841 (, 628). SKELLY, or Shelly, a local name for the Chaffinch. SKIDDAW, another form of Kiddaw (see Guillemot). SKIDDY, otherwise SKITTY-Cock, a name applied to theMoor-hen and Water-RAiL. SKIMMER, the English name bestowed by Pennant ^ in 1773on a North-American bird which had already been figured anddescribed by Catesby(B. Carol, i. pi. 90) underthat of Cut-water,—as it appears still to becalled on some
. A dictionary of birds . the account in Bronns Thier-reich (), but above all to Kesslers Osteologie der Vogelfilsse, inthe Bulletin of the Naturalists Society of Moscow for 1841 (, 628). SKELLY, or Shelly, a local name for the Chaffinch. SKIDDAW, another form of Kiddaw (see Guillemot). SKIDDY, otherwise SKITTY-Cock, a name applied to theMoor-hen and Water-RAiL. SKIMMER, the English name bestowed by Pennant ^ in 1773on a North-American bird which had already been figured anddescribed by Catesby(B. Carol, i. pi. 90) underthat of Cut-water,—as it appears still to becalled on some parts ofthe coast,-—remarkablefor the unique forma-tion of its bill, in which Rhynchops. (After Swainson.) the maxilla, or so-called upper mandible, is capable of much vertical ^ I call it Skimmer, from the manner of its collecting its food with thelower mandible as it flies along the sm-face of the water {Gen. of Birds, p. 57). Other English names applied to it in America are Razorbill, Scissor-bill, and 868 SKOOI—SKUA movement, while the lower mandible, which is considerably thelonger of the two, is laterally compressed so as to be as thin as aknife-blade. This bird is the Ehynchops nigra of Linnaeus, who,however, united with it what proves to be an allied species fromIndia that, having been indicated many years before by Petiver{Gazoph. Nat. tab. 76, fig. 2), on the authority of Buckley, and namedby J. E,. Forster in 1781, was only technically described in 1838 bySwainson {Anim. Menag. p. 360) as R. alUcollis. A third species, , inhabits Africa; and examples from South America, thoughby many writers regarded as identical with E. nigra, are consideredby Mr. Saunders {Proc. Zool. Soc. 1882, p. 522) to form a fourth,E. melanura of Swainson (ut supra, p. 340), and he has now separatedsouthern examples as a fifth, E. intercedens. All these resemble oneanother very closely, and, apart from their singularly-formed bill,have the structure and appear
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