sea pigeon

noun7

1. •
   The black guillemot (Cepphus grylle).

   • At length my son asked for the telescope, and on returning it carelessly remarked, "There are a couple of black guillemots." Macleod was alive in a moment—"That's the sea-pigeon." — 1880
2. •
   The pigeon guillemot (Cepphus columba).

   • The nests of the sea pigeon were for the most part inaccessible, being far in the recesses of crevices in the roofs of caves. — 1915
3. •
   A common guillemot (Uria aalge).
4. •
   The Mandt's guillemot (Cepphus mandtii).

   • MANDT's GUILLEMOT (C. mandtii) is a northern variety of the Sea Pigeon, differing from grylle in lacking the black bar on the wing-patch, and having a somewhat stouter bill. — 1896
5. •
   Bonaparte's gull (Chroicocephalus philadelphia).

   • Bonaparte's Gull. Little bass gull; sea pigeon (from its general figure and small size among gulls). — 1956
6. •
   The cormorant.
7. •
   A reddish brown marine invertebrate that propels itself by flaps that resemble wings.

   • The sea pigeon was no bird but a slug-like marine invertebrate. — 1936