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shoot over dogs in the brush, the gunners of this section are 

 principally seaf owl-shooters who know very little, and care less, 

 about shore-birds.* 



At Ash Point (near Kockland), Me., Seaford (Hempstead), 

 L. I., and Barnegat, N. J., GRAY PLOVER (see No. 50). In Maine 

 at Bath, Portland, and Pine Point, at Portsmouth, N. H., in 

 Massachusetts at Ipswich, Salem, North Scituate, Provincetown, 

 West Barnstable, Chatham, and New Bedford, at Stratford, 

 Conn., and Shinnecock Bay, L. L, BEETLE-HEAD ; at Eastville, 

 Ya., BEETLE simply. Again, at Bath and Portland, CHUCKLE- 

 HEAD. At North Plymouth, Mass., BOTTLE-HEAD. On Long 

 Island at Shinnecock Bay, and in New Jersey at Manasquan, 

 Tuckerton, Atlantic City, Somers Point, Cape May C. H., and 

 Cape May City, BULL-HEAD (see No. 56) ; at Stonington, Conn., 

 BULL-HEAD PLOVER. " In the Eastern States," Audubon wrote, 

 " as well as in Kentucky, it is called the Bull-head ; but in the 

 South its most common appellation is Black -bellied Plover." 

 In New Jersey at Pleasantville (Atlantic Co.), and Atlantic City, 

 HOLLOW-HEAD; and again at Pleasantville, OWL-HEAD. At 

 Pine Point, Me.,' Portsmouth, N. H., in Massachusetts at Prov- 

 incetown, West Barnstable, Chatham. New Bedford, and Fal- 

 mouth, and at Stratford, Conn., BLACK-BREAST (see Nos. 53, 

 56). On Long Island at Moriches, Bellport, and Seaford, and 



* The term " shore-birds," as commonly used, means such species as the 

 curlews, plovers, sandpipers, etc., these being also termed " bay-birds " by 

 many; and Wilson wrote, while describing the red-backed sandpiper, No. 53 : 

 " This is one of the most numerous of our strand Urds as they are usually 

 called." Shore gunners very naturally associate birds of this kind almost 

 wholly with the beaches and meadows that border the sea, yet the same 

 species are to be met with, as well, away back upon the prairies of the interior, 

 particularly during the vernal migrations. Other titles used to designate these 

 birds collectively I have noted as follows: At Ash Point, Me., "sand-birds." 

 In Maine at Bath and Kennebunk, at Portsmouth, N. H., in Massachusetts at 

 Rowley, Salem, North Scituate, Provincetown, North Plymouth, and Barn- 

 stable, and at Newport, R. L, " marsh-birds." On Long Island, and in its 

 vicinity, " bay-snipe" and " shore-snipe." These are the only notes of the kind 

 that I can find among my memoranda, and I will not attempt to continue the 

 list from memory. 



