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sand lark, sand laverock
[f. sand n.2 + lark n.1, laverock.]
1. A name applied, chiefly locally, to some of the smaller limicoline birds.
1658R. Franck North. Mem. (1694) 181 Besides here [sc. Ross] are Eagles,..Seapyes, Sandelevericks [etc.]. 1800Wordsw. Idle Sheph. Boys 24 Along the river's stony marge The sand-lark chants a joyous song. 1831J. Rennie Montagu's Ornith. Dict., Dulwilly (Charadrius Hiaticula). Provincial... Sand Laverock. Ibid., Sand Lark, a name for the Ringed Plover, and the Sandpiper. Ibid., Sandpiper (Totanus hypoleucus)... Provincial... Sand Lavrock. Sand Lark. 1880J. E. Harting Rodd's Birds Cornw. 103 Under a variety of names, as Dunlin,..Sandlark, the bird [Tringa alpina] is well known to shore-shooters. 1905A. R. Wallace Life I. 335 Sand-grouse and sand-larks were occasionally seen.
2. A lark of the genus Ammomanes.
1869–73Cassell's Bk. Birds I. 199 The Sand Larks (Ammomanes) easily recognisable by their strong beaks..and sand-coloured plumage.
3. Austral. The Red-capped Dottrel, Charadrius ruficapilla. (Morris Austral Eng.)
1867W. Richardson Tasmanian Poems Pref. 11 The nimble sand-lark learns his pretty note. |