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At this time the birds are found in 

 flocks of many individuals scattered 

 over the fields. Wheat stubble fields 

 are the favorite resorts at this time, 

 and it is here that the Dove hunters 

 seek the birds. Within recent years 

 I have known of more than a hundred 

 birds killed in one afternoon by a 

 small party of hunters in two or three 

 adjoining stubble fields. Still they 

 seem to be holding their own number 

 pretty well and it may be well that 

 they do not become too abundant for 

 being almost strictly a vegetarian. 

 Great numbers of them could do con- 

 siderable damage, but by no means 

 should the economic position it holds 

 as a weed seed destroyer be over- 

 looked. 



Ben J. Blincoe, 

 Bardstown, Ky. 



LOCAL BIRD NAMES 



The article by Fred J. Pierce deal- 

 ing with local bird names in THE 

 OOLOGIST, Vol. XXXVI, No. 8, Aug. 

 1920, is very interesting, and I wish 

 to add my quota to this interesting 

 subject. 



During several seasons spent among 

 the islands off the coast of the Vir- 

 ginia peninsula, I have learned that 

 the Black Skimmer is called Flood 

 Gull, Shearwater or Cutwater; all 

 Terns are called Strikers, but the larg- 

 er ones — Caspian and Royal — are Gan- 

 net Strikers. Black-head or Black 

 headed Gull is the name given to the 

 Laughing Gull and the Oystercatcher 

 is known as the Sea Crow. The Flick- 

 er is called the Yellow Winker; the 

 Boat-tailed Grackle is the Jack-daw, 

 and the Crested Flycatcher is often 

 called Clayton. The Clapper Bail is 

 known as Mud Hen or Sage Hen, the 

 Piping Plover is the Pee-Bo Bird and 

 among the older men, the Wilson's 

 Plover is known as the Stuttering 

 Bird. Green Herons are Scouts, Night 



Herons are Wops and Great Blue 

 Herons are Crankys or Cranes. The 

 Brown Thrasher is locally known as 

 the Rusty Mocker. The Scoters are 

 Coots, while the Scaups are Broad 

 Bills and all small Sandpipers are 

 Pennywinkles or Pennies. The Turn- 

 stone is often called Calico-back or 

 Maggot Eater. 



I am sure both Mr. Pierce and my- 

 self would be glad to see other lists 

 of this nature from time to time in 

 the columns of THE OOLOGIST. 



B. R. Bales, M.D. 

 Circleville, Ohio. 



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