186 BIRD NAMES. [No. 54. 



that this " horse-foot " spawn is very greedily devoured by most 

 of our shore -birds. (See "Horse -foot Marlin" under Nos. 58 

 and 60.) 



Giraud (1844) gives BEACH-BIRD as used at Egg Harbor to 

 designate the young ; and Mr. William Gaskill, the oldest and 

 perhaps best-informed gunner in the neighborhood of Tucker- 

 ton, N. J., tells me that he remembers this as a name formerly 

 used for the species, but not as confined to the young bird. It 

 is not a very distinctive title, and has been given to the Eing- 

 necked Plover — ^EgialiUs semipalmata, Piping Plover — jE. me- 

 loda, Sanderling — Galidris arenaria, etc. 



De Kay, in Zoology of New York, 1844, gives HEART-BIRD 

 as one of the names applied to the species by " our gunners, a 

 class of men who earn a livelihood by shooting birds." This 

 author was evidently afraid that we might confuse the gunner 

 with that helpless but interesting creature " the true sportsman." 



In Hallock's Sportsman's Gazetteer, SAND-RUNNER. 



In Maine at Portland and Pine Point, in Massachusetts at 

 Kowley, Ipswich, Salem, Boston markets, North Scituate, Prov- 

 incetown, "West Barnstable, and Martha's Vineyard, CHICKEN- 

 PLOVER and CHICKEN-BIRD; at Chatham, CHICKEN simply; 

 and referred to in Forest and Stream of September 4, 1873, 

 as CHICKLING-. Again, in Massachusetts at New Bedford, 

 RED -LEGS, and Maynard gives RED-LEGGED PLOVER in his 

 Birds of Eastern Massachusetts ; at Falmouth, SPARKED-BACK, 

 STREAKED-BACK, and BISHOP PLOVER; at Nantucket, CRED- 

 DOCK. In Connecticut at Saybrook and Lyme, SEA QUAIL. 

 On Long Island at Shinnecock Bay, Moriches, Bellport, and Sea- 

 ford, BRANT -SNIPE and BRANT -BIRD (see Nos. 53, 60, 61); 

 again at Moriches, MAGGOT-SNIPE ; at Amity ville, JINNY. In 

 New Jersey at Manasquan, Pleasantville (Atlantic Co.), Atlantic 

 City, throughout Cape May County, and in Virginia at Eastville, 

 CALICO-BACK. Again, in New Jersey at Cape May City, CALICO- 

 BIRD ; at Pleasantville, above mentioned, CALICO-JACKET ; at 

 Barnegat, CHECKERED-SNIPE; at Tuckerton, GANNET;* at Som- 



* The true Gannets are large fish-devouring sea-fowl of the genus Sula. 



