82 BIRD NAMES. [No. 24. 



is too rare to bear a name of any kind. Having been told at 

 Kennebunk, Me. (1885), that a very handsome but strange duck 

 had recently been killed, I walked a long distance out of my 

 way to see it, and was considerably disappointed to find the 

 vara avis nothing more wonderful than a male of the present 

 species. Again, while at Provincetown, Mass. (same year), I 

 was called to pronounce upon another cock Dipper, as the bird 

 was unknown to the local gunners (see " Dipper " of Province- 

 town, No. 31). 



I will note here that the Water Ouzel, Cmclus mexicanus, 

 also bears the name of " Dipper " in books and elsewhere, but 

 there is little chance of confusion arising therefrom, the "Water 

 Ouzel being about the size of a blue-bird, and belonging to the 

 far West. 



The Buffle-head is again the "Dipper" on the Connecticut 

 coast, and continues to be so recognized, very generally, as far 

 as the southern part of North Carolina. 



At Bath, Me., and North Scituate, Mass., ROBIN-DIPPER; at 

 Buzzard's Bay, Mass., DAPPER (see No. 31). Mr. Browne, in his 

 list of gunners' names, at Plymouth Bay,* gives both "Dipper" 

 and DOPPER (see No. 31). 



DIE-DIPPER (see foot-note to name "Dipper," page 81): 

 MARRIONETTE : these two names being mentioned by Audubon, 

 that of Marrionette belonging to the state of Louisiana. 



" Devil-diver " and " Hell-diver " have also appeared in print 

 once or twice as aliases of this bird, but I do not feel like, em- 

 phasizing the fact ; I have never heard either of them used by a 

 gunner for any bird but a grebe, and I think they have probably 

 been credited to the present species inadvertently. 



with those of the Ruddy Duck, No. 31, and with the Grebes, particularly the 

 Pied-billed Grebe, Podifo/mbus podiceps, that lively little nuisance, familiar to 

 us all, under one or more of the following titles : Hen-bill, Hen-bill Diver, 

 Hell-diver, Devil-diver, Water-witch, Dab-chick, Dob-chick, Dop-chick, Dip- 

 chick, Die-dapper, Die-dipper, Dipper. I do not mean, however, that the 

 same name is applied in any one locality to more than a single species. 

 * Forest and Stream, Nov. 9, 1876. 



