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the present generation, cling to the old provincial names for birds, 

 recognizing this species by the singular and unmeaning name of 

 ' Dowitcher.' " It is interesting to note in this connection that 

 the name Dowitcher is the one lately adopted by the American 

 Ornithologists' Union, in their Code of Nomenclature and Check 

 List. The name has been also written Dowitchee and Doe- 

 witch. Giraud mentions also the name QUAIL SNIPE as used 

 " in some sections of the Island ;" and Colonel J. H. Powel, of 

 Newport, E. I., writes (1885) of hearing it called GERMAN SNIPE 

 on Long Island " some twenty-five years ago." 



In New Jersey at Manasquan, Atlantic City, Somers Point, 

 Cape May C. H., and Cape May City, in Virginia at Eastville, 

 and Cobb's Island, GRAY-BACK (see No. 52); more commonly 

 termed, however, at Cape May City, SEA -PIGEON. (It is 

 scarcely necessary to mention that the latter is a guillemot 

 name, as guillemots are not liable to be confused with birds that 

 interest gunners and sportsmen.) 

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