No. 14.] BIRD NAMES. 43 



andria and Norfolk ; at Morehead, N. C., and Savannah, Ga., as 

 SPOON-BILL * (see No. 31). 



At Tuckerton, N. J., and Crisfield, Md., it is the SHOVEL- 

 BILL, and in Putnam County, Illinois, the BROADY. 



The name BROAD-BILL, given in YarrelPs British Birds, 

 Coues's Key, etc., though eminently appropriate, seems to have 

 been very thoroughly taken up in our country by other species. 



Another name at Norfolk, and one which has rapidly grown 

 into favor, is BUTLER DUCK, the bird being so called because of 

 its spoon-like bill, and with reference to a well-known general in 

 the civil war. J. W. Long also records this name in his descrip- 

 tions of wildfowl shooting in the West. 



Another odd title, of much less recent origin, encountered at 

 Morehead, N. C., is COW-FROG. Though no one attempts to give 

 a reason for the term, the oldest inhabitants tell of hearing it in 

 use from early childhood. 



Though known at Savannah, as previously stated, as the 

 Spoon-bill, I have heard it oftener referred to there, and at St. 

 Augustine, as SPOON-BILLED WIDGEON; and it is commonly 

 called in the markets, and by the market-gunners of Savannah, 

 the SPOON-BILLED TEAL. This termination " teal," though a 

 peculiarly marketable one, is not applied in this case from mer- 

 cenary motives alone, as many of the resident sportsmen as well 

 as market gunners believe in two varieties of Spoon-bill; the 

 Spoon -billed Widgeon being the larger, and having "darker 

 bill and legs." 



The only time I remember to have heard the name Shoveller 

 in actual use among gunners (and this, according to scholarly 

 usage, is its correct name) was at Baltimore. The bird is known 

 however as the MUD-SHOVELLER at Sanford, Fla. 



In Lawson's New Yoyage to Carolina, 1709, we read about 

 the SWADDLE-BILL as follows : " A sort of an ash-colored duck, 

 which have an extraordinary broad bill, and are good meat; 



* Our Roseate Spoonbill, allied to the herons, and known to ornithologists 

 by the weird and double-barrelled title Ajoja ajaja, will not, it is hoped, get 

 mixed in the mind of any one with the duck kind. 



