176 BIRD NAMES. . [No. 51. 



At Newport, K. I., on Long Island at Shinnecock Bay, Mo- 

 riches, and Bellport, and at Barnegat, X. J., KRIEKER. I write 

 this name as it is usually spelled. It was not applied, as popu- 

 larly believed, because of the bird's creaking note, but because 

 of its crouching or squatting habit German Kriecher, a cring- 

 ing person. 



Known "to some of the residents" of Long Island (Giraud 

 writes, 1844), as MEADOW SNIPE (see No. 44). At Essex, Conn., 

 and mouth of Connecticut Kiver, DOWITCH (a name belonging to 

 the Ked- breasted Snipe, No. 45, and interpreted under that 

 head). In Connecticut at Milford, SQUAT-SNIPE ; at Stratford, 

 SQUATTER. At Seaford, L. L, SHORT-NECK. In New Jersey at 

 Tuckerton, PAT-BIRD ; at Pleasantville (Atlantic Co.), Atlantic 

 City, and Cape May City, HAY-BIRD. Known also to some At- 

 lantic City gunners as TRIDDLER. At Alexandria, Ya., COW- 

 SNIPE. 



In Water Birds of North America the name "Crouching 

 Shore-bird " is given as used at Trinidad. This (like Krieker or 

 Kriecher, Squatter, etc.), is an appropriate appellation, but a 

 translation, and a very free one it seems. Leotaud, in Oiseaux 

 de Vile de la Trinidad, 1866, gives under the head of T. macu- 

 lata, " Vulg. Couchante /" and Mr. Ridgway writes me that " this 

 appears to be the only basis of Dr. Brewer's statement." 



