82 BIRD NAMES. [No. 24. 



is too rare to bear a name of any kind. Having been told at 

 Kennebunk, Me. (1885), that a very handsome but strange duck 

 bad recently been killed, I walked a long distance out of my 

 way to see it, and was considerably disappointed to find the 

 rara avis nothing more wonderful than a male of the present 

 species. Again, while at Provincetown, Mass. (same year), I 

 was called to pronounce upon another cock Dipper, as the bird 

 was unknown to the local gunners (see " Dipper " of Province- 

 town, No. 31). 



I will note here that the Water Ouzel, Clnclus tnexicanus, 

 also bears the name of " Dipper " in books and elsewhere, but 

 there is little chance of confusion arising therefrom, the AYater 

 Ouzel being about the size of a blue-bird, and belonging to the 

 far West. 



The Buffle-head is again the "Dipper" on the Connecticut 

 coast, and continues to be so recognized, very generally, as far 

 as the southern part of North Carolina. 



At Bath, Me., and ]S"orth Scituate, Mass., ROBIN-DIPPER; at 

 Buzzard's Bay, Mass., DAPPER (see No. 31). Mr. Browne, in his 

 list of gunners' names, at Plymouth Bay,* gives both "Dipper" 

 and DOPPER (see No. 31). 



DIE-DIPPER (see foot-note to name " Dipper," page 81) : 

 MARRIONETTE: these two names being mentioned by Audubon, 

 that of Marrionette belonging to the state of Louisiana. 



" Devil-diver " and " Hell-diver " have also appeared in print 

 once or twice as aliases of this bird, but I do not feel like em- 

 phasizing the fact ; I have never heard either of them used by a 

 gunner for any bird but a grebe, and I think they have probably 

 been credited to the present species inadvertently. 



with those of the Ruddy Duck, No. 31, and with the Grebes, particularly the 

 Pied-billed Grebe, Podilymhus podiceps, that lively little nuisance, familiar to 

 us all, under one or more of the following titles: Hen-bill, Hen-bill Diver, 

 Hell-diver, Devil-diver, Water-witch, Dab-chick, Dob-chick, Dop-chick, Dip- 

 chick, Die-dapper, Die-dipper, Dipper. I do not mean, however, that the 

 same name is applied in any one locality to more than a single species. 

 * Forest and Stream, Nov. 9, 1876. 



