. A dictionary of birds . deidseand Ciconiidx, to say nothing of others. SEDGE-BIRD, the common name for what in most books iscalled the Sedge-Warbler. SEGGE, Sugge (especially in composition as Heges-sugge), an old name, apparently for any small bird, that seems stillto survive in places for the Hedge-SPARROW; but taking also theform Heysuck (cf. Hay-jack) and even corrupted into Isaac. SENEGALI, a dealers name which should properly belong tothe Fringilla senegala of Linnaeus, the Estrilda or Lagonostida senegalaof some modern Avriters, but seems to be often applied in a generalway
. A dictionary of birds . deidseand Ciconiidx, to say nothing of others. SEDGE-BIRD, the common name for what in most books iscalled the Sedge-Warbler. SEGGE, Sugge (especially in composition as Heges-sugge), an old name, apparently for any small bird, that seems stillto survive in places for the Hedge-SPARROW; but taking also theform Heysuck (cf. Hay-jack) and even corrupted into Isaac. SENEGALI, a dealers name which should properly belong tothe Fringilla senegala of Linnaeus, the Estrilda or Lagonostida senegalaof some modern Avriters, but seems to be often applied in a generalway to small species of Ploceidai (Weaver-bird) from West Africa,or perhaps even other countries. 826 SERIEMA SEEIEMxi, otherwise Cariama/ a South-American bird, suffi-ciently well described and figured in Marcgraves work {Ei&t. Brasilia, p. 203), posthumously published by De Laet in 1648,to be recognized by succeeding ornithologists, among whom Brissonin 1760 acknowledged it as forming a distinct genus Cariama,. SEEIEilA, while Linnffius regarded it as a second species of Palamedea(Screamer, p. 819), under the name of P. cristafa, Englishedin 1785 by Latham {Gen. Synojjs. v. p. 20) the CrestedScreamer,—an appellation, as already observed, since transferredto a wholly different bird. Nothing more seems to have beenknown of it in Europe till 1803, when Azara published at Madridhis observations on the birds of Paraguay (Ajmnfamientos, No. 340),wherein he gave an account of it under the name of Saria, whichit bore among the Guaranis,—that of Cariama being applied toit by the Portuguese settlers, and both expressive of its It was not, however, until 1809 that this very remarkable ^ In this -word the initial C, as is usual in Portuguese, is pronounced soft,and the accent laid u^jon the last syllable. ^ Yet Forbes states {Ibis, 1881, p. 358) that Sericma comes from Siri, adiminutive of Indian extraction, and Ema, the Portuguese name for the Rhea((/. Emeu, p. 2
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