spencyn.
/ˈspɛnsi/ dialect.
The stormy petrel, Procellaria pelagica.
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the world > animals > birds > order Procellariiformes > [noun] > member of family Hydrobatidae > procellaria pelagica (stormy petrel)
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spency1813
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Tom Tailor1885
1813 G. Montagu Suppl. Ornithol. Dict. at Petrel—Stormy Mitty, Assilag, Spency, Sea-Swallow, Allamotti.
1844 Zoologist 2 627 Storm petrel,..the ‘Mother Carey's chickens’, or ‘Spencies’, as they are called by sailors.
1899 Shetland News 14 Jan. (E.D.D.) The Manx shearwater, or ‘lyrie’ of our native folk,..and the storm petrel, or ‘spencie’.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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