A local (St. Kilda) name for the guillemot.
1698. M. Martin, Voy. Kilda (1749), 7. Eighteen of the Eggs laid by the Fowl called by them Lavy. Ibid., 31. The Lavy, so call’d by the Inhabitants of St. Kilda.
1766. Pennant, Zool. (1768), II. 410.
1802. G. Montagu, Ornith. Dict. (1833), 545.
1867. in Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk.
