. A dictionary of birds . a local name for the Water-RAIL (p. 763). s SACRUM, see Skeleton. SADDLE-BACK, in Britain and North America, a local namefor the adult of either of the Black-backed GuLLS, Larus marinus andfuscus; but in New Zealand applied to Creaclion, a genus founded in1816 by Vieillot {Analyse, p. 34) of which the Sturnus carmiGulatusof Gmelin, based on theWattled Stare of Latham(Gen. Synops. iii. p. 9, ) is usually consideredthe Its real affinitymust be regarded as doubt-ful ; for, like several otherforms of the New-ZealandRegion, it does not enterreadily into any of
. A dictionary of birds . a local name for the Water-RAIL (p. 763). s SACRUM, see Skeleton. SADDLE-BACK, in Britain and North America, a local namefor the adult of either of the Black-backed GuLLS, Larus marinus andfuscus; but in New Zealand applied to Creaclion, a genus founded in1816 by Vieillot {Analyse, p. 34) of which the Sturnus carmiGulatusof Gmelin, based on theWattled Stare of Latham(Gen. Synops. iii. p. 9, ) is usually consideredthe Its real affinitymust be regarded as doubt-ful ; for, like several otherforms of the New-ZealandRegion, it does not enterreadily into any of the recognized Families of Birds, and thus hasbeen placed among the Stmiiidai or Corvidm, while it very possibly 1 In England of late years it has been known to breed only in one locality,the name or situation of which it is not desirable to publish. - This is not to be confounded with the AnfJwcJimra carvnculata, which basalso been called Creadion carunmlatus (Vieillot, Encyd. Mithod. ii. p. 874) andis a Honey-sucker. 51. Ceeadion. (From Buller.) 8o2 SAGE-COCK—SAKER represents an earlier and more generalized form from which bothmay have sprung. That point must be left to future examination(which may be hoped for before extirpation has done its work), mean-while it is enough to remark that the habits, as described by Sir {B. New Zeal. ed. 2, i. pp. 18-20), of the Saddle-back of NewZealand shew little trace of agreement with those of either of theFamilies to which it has been assigned, and that the bird derivesits name from the distribution of its strongly-contrasted colours,black and ferruginous, of which the latter covers the shouldersand back in a way suggestive of saddle-flaps. A second speciesdescribed by Sir Walter in 1865 (Essay Orn. iV. Z. p. 10), underthe name of C. cinereus, was subsequently repudiated by him(B. Al Z. ed. 1, p. 149), but in 1888 was restored (op. dt. ed. 2,i. p. 21). It is said to be known as the Jack-bird. SAGE-COCK, Centrocercus urophasian
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