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and Stonington, Conn., and to some at Shinnecock Bay, L. I., 

 GRASS PLOVER ; on Long Island at Shinnecock Bay and Mo- 

 riches, HUMILITY (see Nos. 47, 48) ; at Bellport, GRAY PLOVER 

 (see No. 55) ; at Seaford (Hempstead), PLAIN PLOVER ; and we 

 hear CORN-FIELD PLOVER among other names at Washing- 

 ton, D. C. 



Dr. Coues, in Birds of the Northwest (1874), speaks of the 

 species as very numerous during its migrations "• in most parts 

 of the West between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains," 

 and " commonly known as the PRAIRIE PIGEON " (see No. 56) ; 

 and we find the following in Water Birds of North America 

 (Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway) : " In Southern Wisconsin, Mr. 

 Kmnlien informs me, in 1851 this bird, then very common there, 

 was known as the PRAIRIE PLOVER, and also as the PRAIRIE 

 SNIPE." Mr. Seton, previously cited, calls it also Prairie Plover 

 (as well as Quaily) in his Birds of Western Manitoba, Auk, April, 

 1886. 



At New Orleans, La., it is the PAPABOTE ; this is Audubon's 

 spelling of the name ; it is also written " Papabot " and " Papa- 

 botte." 



Concerning the name Frost Bird, credited to the species by 

 Herbert, see No. 56. 



