4F\) NOTES ON THE 
A LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL POPULAR SYNONYMS OF 
THE BIRDS OF MINNESOTA. 
COMPILED AND ARRANGED BY HENRY F. NACHTRIEB. 
This list is intended primarily for the convenience of those 
who have learned to know our birds by popular names that 
once had current value but that have been discarded by the 
American Ornithologists, Union, and that are more or less 
rapidly becoming obsolete. 
The popular name adopted by the American Ornithologists’ 
Union immediately follows the number after the scientific 
name, and is printed in bolder type than the synonyms, which 
are enclosed within parentheses. 
The number between the scientific name and the popular 
name refers to the page of the ‘‘Notes.” 
All those interested in our birds ought to (for excellent rea- 
sons that cannot be given here) adopt the popular names of 
the American Ornithologists’ Union Check-list as given here 
and in the ‘‘Notes.” 
1. Acanthis linaria, 299. - - - - - Redpoll. 
(Common Redpoll. Redpoll Linnet.) 
2. Accipiter atricapillus, 183. - American Goshawk. 
(Blue Hen Hawk (when mature). Chicken Hawk (when 
young). Goshawk). 
3. Accipiter cooperi, 181. - - - Coopers’ Hawk. 
(Chicken Hawk.) 
4. Accipiter velox, 180. - - Sharp-shinned Hawk. 
(‘Pigeon Hawk.’’) 
5. Actitis macularia, 144. - - Spotted Sandpiper. 
(Tip-up. Teeter-tail.) 
6. Achmophorus occidentalis, 4. - - Western Grebe. 
7. Agialitis semipalmata, 152. - Semipalmated Plover. 
(Ring Plover. Ring-neck. Ring-neck Plover.) 
8. A gialitis vocifera, 151. - - - - Killdeer. 
(Killdeer Plover.) 
9. Agelaius phoeniceus, 277. - Red-winged Blackbird. 
(Blackbird. Marsh Blackbird. Red-and-buff-shouldered 
Marsh Blackbird. Swamp Blackbird.) 
10. Aix sponsa, 51. - - - - - += Wood Duck. 
(Summer Duck. ‘The Bride.”) 
