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and Tuckerton, N. J., SALT-WATER SHELDRAKE; and Giraud 

 writes, Birds of Long Island, 1844, "■ called by our gunners 

 PIED SHELDRAKE" (see Iso. 23 for use of "pied" on Long 

 Island). 



At Crisfield, Md., PHEASANT. (For other water-fowl to 

 which the word "pheasant" is attached, see Nos. 13, 20, 22.) 



At Morehead, N. C, FISHERMAN and FISHING-DUCK. These 

 last two names, though used at Morehead for this bird only, are 

 sometimes loosely a])plied to the three mergansers (Nos. 20, 21, 

 22). We also hear FISH-DUCK and SAW-BILL thus indiscrimi- 

 nately applied ; and William F. Davis, of the Thimble Islands, 

 Conn., tells of hearing the name GAR-BILL used for mergansers 

 in general, " by visiting sportsmen " from parts unknown. 



Captain Bob Petty, of Bellport, L. I., informs me that this, 

 the Red-breasted Merganser, is known "to all the gunners about 

 Mobile" (Ala.) as the SEA BEC-SCIE (this being an English- 

 French combination, meaning sea " saw-bill "). 



In a Notice of the Ducks and Shooting of the Chesapeake, 

 by Dr. J. T. Sharpless, Cabinet of Nat. Hist., Vol. III., 1833, the 

 present species is referred to as HAIRY-CROWN, a name remind- 

 ing us of that similar one. Hairy-head, belonging to Hooded Mer- 

 ganser, No. 22. 



De Kay, in New York Zoology, 1844, mentions " Whistler " 

 among other names, as given to this species in New York State. 

 He elsewhere records the title as applied in same state to the 

 Hooded Merganser. I do not feel like giving special emphasis 

 to these applications of a term so commonly used, then as now, 

 for the Golden-eye, No. 23. 



We find the following in Rev. Charles Swainson's Provincial 

 Names of British Birds, 1885 : SAWNEB (Aberdeen) : SAWBILL 

 WIDGEON (Galway) : HERALD (Shetland Isles) : HERALD DUCK 

 (Forfar and Shetland Isles) : HARLE or HARLE DUCK (Orkney 

 Isles) : EARL DUCK (East Lothian) : LAND HARLAN (Wexford) : 

 BARDRAKE (Down), "from the brown and ash colored streak 

 on the rump ;" this name being mentioned elsewhere by the 

 author as applied in Ireland to Tadorna cornuta, the common 

 Sheldrake of the Old Country: SCALE DUCK (Strangford 



