No. 22.] BIRD NAMES. f3 



HOODED MERGANSER: HOODED SHELDRAKE: ROUND-CREST- 

 ED DUCK (Catesby's Nat. Hist. Carolina, Fla., etc., 1731) : FAN- 

 CRESTED DUCK (Barton's Fragments Nat. Hist., Penn., 1799). 



At Bath, Me., PICKAXE SHELDRAKE (the bill being the pointed 

 end of the pickaxe, I suppose; the crest, its wide transverse edge) : 

 known also at Bath, to some of the gunners, and at Essex, Conn, 

 as POND SHELDRAKE (see No. 20) : and Mr. Everett Smith states 

 in his Birds of Maine,* that it is " locally known as the LITTLE 

 SHELDRAKE." 



At Stonington, Conn., WOOD SHELDRAKE; at Essex, same 

 state, SUMMER SHELDRAKE. Neither this name Summer Shel- 

 drake, nor that of Pond Sheldrake is often required here, as the 

 bird is but infrequently found, and it may be added that this is 

 not a common species along our coast north of New Jersey, 

 though met with sometimes in fair numbers. 



On Long Island at Shinnecock Bay, Moriches, and Bellport, 

 SWAMP SHELDRAKE (see No. 20). 



On the Niagara Eiver, Lake St. Clair, and about Chicago, 

 LITTLE SAW-BILL and FISH-DUCK; the latter name being com- 

 mon also in Putnam Co., 111. (See No. 21 for this last name, and 

 Fisherman, Fishing- duck, Saw -bill, and Gar-bill, as sometimes 

 indiscriminately applied to mergansers in general ; a loose style 

 of expression, however, that belongs more to " sportsmen " and 

 the like than to " gunners.") 



It is worthy of note that in the neighborhood of Niagara 

 Falls the book-name, Hooded Merganser, is met with in common 

 use. Just think of it ! a live gunner with that name on his 

 lips. 



In Connecticut at Milford and Stratford, SAW-BILL DIVER. 

 I am here reminded of how easily names get twisted. I have 

 seen this one conspicuously printed " Swan-bill Diver," and an 

 old gunner at Stratford always refers to the bird as " Saw-mill 

 Diver ;" the last being not so bad, as the bird is so frequently 

 encountered in and about mill-ponds. 



On Long Island at Seaford (Hempstead), SAW-BILL simply ; 



* Forest and Stream, 1882-83. 



