176 BIRD NAMES. . [No. 51. 



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

 riches, and Bellport, and at Barnegat, K 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 Red -breasted Snipe, No. 45, and interpreted under that 

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

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

 Tuckerton, FAT-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. Bldgway writes me that " this 

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



