No. 25.] BIRD NAMES. §9 



others at Detroit and St. Clair Flats, and to the people of Ken- 

 nebunk, Me., as COCKAWEE ; this (differently spelled) being re- 

 ferred to in Fauna Boreali-Americana as follows : " The peculiar 

 cry of this duck is celebrated in the songs of the Canadian voy- 

 ageurs, by the epithet of caccdime^'' and Mr. William Brewster 

 speaks of " cock-a-wee '' as everywhere applied to the species on 

 the Gulf of St. Lawrence (1883). 



Two other odd names met with among old New England 

 gunners are SCOLDENORE, at Portsmouth, N. H., and QUANDY, 

 at I^orth Scituate and Plymouth, Mass. We hear at Plymouth 

 also, SCOLDER, a term much more easily understood. 



To some at Lake St. Clair and Chicago this is the WINTER- 

 DUCK (see No. 13), while others at Chicago are more familiar 

 with the New England title Old Squaw. 



The following names are found in Swainson's Provincial 

 Names of British Birds, 1885 : SHARP-TAILED DUCK: SWALLOW- 

 TAILED SHELDRAKE : CALOO, or CALAW (Orkney, Shetland Isles) : 

 DARCALL: COAL AND CANDLE-LIGHT (Orkney Isles): COL- 

 CANDLE-WICK (Fife) : COLDIE (Forfar) : MEALY BIRD (Norfolk), 

 '' the young are so called :" NORTHERN HARELD (Aberdeen). 



