196 BIRD X^MjES. [No. 56- 



twenty years ago). At Newport, E. I., MUDDY-BREAST ; and 

 at Seaford, L. L, FROST-BIRD.* 



Mr. Henry P. Ives, of Salem, tells of its being known as TROUT- 

 BIRD at Hamilton, Mass. Mr. Browne records SQUEALER in 

 his list of gunners' names at Plymouth Bay (Forest and Stream, 

 November 9, 1876). Mr. John Murdoch (Forest and Stream, 

 December 9, 1886) speaks of hearing it called TOAD-HEAD on 

 Cape Cod ; stating that most of his " shore-bird nomenclature 

 for Cape Cod was learned in the town of Orleans in the seasons 

 of 1869-72, and chiefly from the older generation of gunners." 

 Mr. M. A. Howell, Jr., writes (Forest and Stream, March 1, 

 1877) : " From the regularity of the visits of these birds in for- 

 mer years to the sand bars of the upper Illinois and Kankakee, 

 they have been called by the resident shooters, KANKAKEE BAR 

 PLOVER." Mr. Warren Hapgood, in Forest and Stream Shore 

 Bird pamphlet, 1881, speaks of its being known in the West 

 as PRAIRIE PIGEON (see No. 50); and writes in reply to in- 

 quiries of mine that he has forgotten just where he heard the 

 name in use ; but he adds, " It was common talk when I was in 

 Iowa, before the article was written, that the earlier settlers 

 were annoyed by these birds, which, in the absence of a better 

 name, they called Prairie Pigeons." 



* Herbert, in his Field Sports, credits tlie Bartramian Sandpiper, No. 50, 

 with this name Frost-bird, but later on applies it correctly to No. 56. 



