12 THK PIJCKKR. 



Yellow Flicker. West. To distinguish it from the Red- 

 shafted FHcker, whose range it overlaps. 



Yellowhammer, Yellerhammer, Yallerhammer, Yellow- 

 hammer. In general use, ranking next to the Flicker in pop- 

 ularity, more frequently heard in the older States, but not 

 uncommon in the Mississippi Valley, and even cropping 

 out in the far West, thus indicating C- cafe?-. " Yellowham- 

 mer is an old Teutonic word, common in Great Britain as the 

 provincial name of the Yellow Bunting {Emberiza citrinella). 

 Hammer or 'ammer — it ought to be the latter — means, radi- 

 cally, the chirper, /. c, a small chirping bird, so that Yellow- 

 'ammer^ Yellow Songbird. Its application to our Flicker is 

 the result of ignorance long ago." — Ernest Ingersoll. Doubt- 

 less the very first settlers, eager to discover something in the 

 wilderness that would remind them of the land they had left, 

 so named the strange bird upon the first flash of yellow, irre- 

 spective of the difference in size, structure and habits ; and the 

 title continued through a sense of its accidental fitness. 



Yellow Jay. New Hampshire, Wisconsin. A misnomer, 

 but not altogether inappropriate, as it possesses a call note 

 almost in common with one of the Blue Jay's. 



Yellow-shafted Flickert Yellow-winged Woodpecker. See 

 Golden-shafted Flicker. 



Yellow Wing. Cape Ann, Massachusetts. 



Yellow-winged Sapsucker. Pennsylvania. Misnomer. 



Yellow- winged Woodcock. Iowa. Misnomer. 



Zebec ( Young Oohgisf, 'S4, p. 22). See Xebec. 



