4J:0 NOTES ON THE 



A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL POPULAR SYNONYMS OF 

 THE BIRDS OF MINNESOTA. 



COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY HENRY F. NACHTRIEB. 



This list is intended primarily for the convenience of those 

 who have learned to know our birds by popular names that 

 once had current value but that have been discarded by the 

 American Ornithologists, Union, and that are more or less 

 rapidly becoming obsolete. 



The popular name adopted by the American Ornithologists' 

 Union immediately follows the number after the scientific 

 name, and is printed in bolder type than the synonyms, which 

 are enclosed within parentheses. 



The number between the scientific name and the popular 

 name refers to the page of the "Notes." 



All those interested in our birds ought to (for excellent rea- 

 sons that cannot be given here) adopt the popular names of 

 the American Ornithologists' Union Check-list as given here 

 and in the "Notes." 



1. Acanthis liiiaria, 299. Redpoll. 



(Common Redpoll. Redpoll Linnet.) 



2. Accipiter atricapillus, 183. - American Goshawk. 



(Blue Hen Hawk (when mature). Chicken Hawk (when 

 young). Goshawk). 



3. Accipiter cooperi, 181. - - - Coopers* Hawk. 



(Chicken Hawk.) 



4. Accipiter velox, 180. - - Sliarp-sliinned Hawk. 



("Pigeon Hawk.") 



5. Actitis maciilaria, 144. - - Spotted Sandpiper. 



(Tip-up. Teeter-tail.) 



6. ^Echmopliorus occidentalis, 4. - - Western Grebe. 



7. ^Egialitis semipalmata, 152. - Seniipalmated Plover. 



(Ring Plover. Ring-neck. Ring-neck Plover.) 



8. .<^gialitis vocifera, 151. . - . - Killdeer. 



(Killdeer Plover.) 



9. Agelaius plioeniceus, 277. - Red-winged Blackbird. 



(Blackbird. Marsh Blackbird. Red-and-buff-shouldered 

 Marsh Blackbird. Swamp Blackbird.) 



lO. Aix sponsa, 51. Wood Duck. 



(Summer Duck. "The Bride.") 



