10 THE FLICKER. 



Sucker. Florida. See Sapsucko'. 



Specht, Speckt, Speightt Spright. Pennsylvania. German. 

 (Woodpecker ). A corruption — W^oodspitc — is locally in ii.se in 

 England to designate the Green Woodpecker, according to 

 Rev. J. G. Wood. — " Popular Natural Hi.story." 



Talpa-na-nh Southern Florida. Seminole Indians. It 

 has no equivalent in English. The first part seems to be a 

 generic prefix, and the last two syllables are an imitation of a 

 cry of the kind. — Walter Hoxie. 



Taping-bird. Mas.sachusetts. This epithet was applied 

 because it flies as if " measured off tape." In the " Audubon 

 Magazine ' ' an error was made in copying from the ' ' Forest 

 and Stream," making it "Tapping-bird," which would of 

 cour.se make it have a very different meaning. — W. W. Col- 

 burn. 



Tree-pecker. Lower Delaware Valley. (Obsolete). So 

 called by the early Swedi.sh settlers, according to Heckwelder. 



Wa-cup. New Eondon and Windham counties, Connecti- 

 cut. " So called by every one .save a few closet bird men." — 

 C. E. Raw.son. Imitation of its song or greeting notes. 



Wah-cup. Ma.s.sachusetts; Eong Lsland. Same as Wa-aip. 



Wake-up. New England; New York; Minne.sota. Cor- 

 ruption of ]]'a-citp. 



Wa-wup. New York; Pennsylvania. Same as Wa-ciip. 



Weather-hen. Vermont. Doubtless so called becau.se it 

 becomes, in common with many other species of birds, partic- 

 ularly^ vociferous just before or after a storm. 



Wheeler. Somerset county, Maryland. Probably of ono- 

 matopoetic origin. 



Wild Hen. Maine. ' ' Its practice of laying additional eggs 

 when the first set is removed gives the bird this name." — 

 Ernest Ingersoll. Its cackling notes are .somewhat similar to 

 the common domestic fowl's. 



Will Crisson. Dismal Swamp Region, North Carolina. 

 Given me by a gentleman who visited and hunted in that 

 .section and heard it applied. I know nothing of its origin or 

 meaning. — W. W. Colburn. Probably another sound-word, 

 corrupted until all trace of the cry represented has been lost. 



Woodchuck. Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Kansas; 

 North Carolina; Florida. Po.s.siblv the suffix is derived from 



