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Golden-shafted Flicker, Golden-shafted Woodpecker, Gold- 

 en-wing, Golden-winged Flicker, Golden-winged Woodpecker, 

 Gold-wing Woodpecker, Golden-wing Woodpecker, Gold- 

 winged Woodpecker* In more or less fre([uent use, chiefly 

 tlirono:h the influence of our earlier ornithological writers. 



Golden Woodpecker, New York. 



Golden-winged Woodcock, Iowa. Misnomer. 



Grasshopper Woodpecker. Vermont. From its habit of 

 frequenting open fields where grasshoppers {Acridid(C), abound 

 upon which it feeds. 



Hairy-wicket, Harry-wicket. New England. Corruption 

 of the love or scythe-whetting notes. 



Hammer-Head. Western part of Hamp.shire county, Mass- 

 achu.setts. This name is equally applicable to any other wood- 

 pecker. — W. W. Colburn. A homonym. " Name given in 

 the Cape Colony, Africa, to Scopus umbrctta, which is allied 

 to the Herons." — Newton's Dictionary of Birds. 



Hick-wall. Connecticut. Obsolescent. A relic of the old 

 world, of which Hewel and Hew-hole are .said to be cor- 

 ruptions. The older form of which, " Hick-waw " (Holly 

 hand) and Hick way and Highawe (Cotgrave) can hardly have 

 come from anything but the Anglo-Saxon " Higera " or 

 " Higere " (T. Wright), meaning laughter, and doubtless 

 referring to the cry of the Green Woodpecker [Gecinus 

 vi)'idis). — Newton's Dictionary of Birds. 



High-hole, High-holer, High-hold, High-holder. Northern 

 United States and Canada. "From the usual position, of its 

 ne.st. " — Earnest IngersoU. Further modifications of "Hewel, " ' 

 "Hewhole," " Heigh-hawe," or " High-hawe." — Newton's 

 Dictionar3^ The terms may have originated in accordance 

 with Newton's .statement, but are now u.sed only in the sen.se 

 defined by Inger.soll. 



High-ho Woodpecker. Wisconsin. A contraction of 

 High-hole. 



Hittock, Hittocks, Hittuck. Canada. New Jersey. "Said 

 to have been handed down from the Delaware Indians, being 

 the Leni-Lenape word for tree." — Heckwelder. "Probably 

 originated from a fancied resemblance of its notes to the sound 

 of tlie words. " — Alexander Wilson. ' ' So called by the Swedes 

 on account of its notes." — Kalm. 



