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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The Indian goatsucker, Caprimulgus asiaticus: so called because its note resembles “the sound of a stone scudding over ice.”
  • noun The little auk or sea-dove, Mergulus alle, or Alle nigricans. See cut under dovekie.

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