Local Names of Migratory Game Birds. AT 
blue-Peter; N. J., blue-Peter, crow-duck, henbill, whitebill; NV. Y., blue-Peter, 
crow-duck, hen-bill, meadow-hen, pulldoo, water-chicken, whitebill; NV. C., blue- 
Peter; Que., poule d’eau; R. I., blue-Peter, marsh-hen, meadow-hen; 8S. C., blue- 
Peter, crewbill, flusterer; Tenn., water-chicken; Tex., poule d’eau; Va., blue-Peter, 
chickenbill, chicken-duck, crowbill, crow-duck; Wis., pulldoo. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Cinereous coot, common coot, foulque d’Amérique (American coot), ivory-billed 
coot, ivory-billed mud-hen, mud-coot, shufHler, splatterer, white-billed coot, white- 
billed mud-hen. 
Order Limicolae: Shorebirds. 
There are numerous collective terms applied more or less comprehensively to shore- 
birds in general (Nos. 222-288), but it should be noted that the tendency is to give 
distinctive names to the larger, and to lump the smaller species under more compre- 
hensive appellations. 
COLLECTIVE VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Snipe. 
In local use.—Alouettes (larks, short for alouettes de mer, sea-larks, a name generally 
applied to small shorebirds) (Que.); baybirds, bay snipe (Long Id., N. Y., N. J.); 
beach-birds (Del.); graybacks (N. C.); jacksnipe (Fla.); maggot-eaters (N. C.); 
marsh-birds (New England); meadow snipe (Conn.); mud snipe (B. C.); peeps (New 
England, Long Id., N. Y.); peckies (Mass.); sand-birds (Me.); sand-chickens (S. C.); 
sand peeps (N.8., Me.); sandpipers (Mass., Long Id., N. Y.); sand snipe (B. C.); sea- 
chickens (N. C.); shore snipe (Long Id., N. Y.); snippets (B. C.) 
Geographic index.—B. C., mud snipe, sand snipe, snippets; Conn., marsh-birds, 
meadow snipe, peeps; Del., beach-birds; Fla., jacksnipes; Me., marsh-birds, peeps, 
sand-birds, sand-peeps; Mass., marsh-birds, peeps, peckies, sandpipers; V. H., 
marsh-birds, peeps; NV. J., baybirds, bay snipe; NV. Y., baybirds, bay snipe, peeps, 
sandpipers, shoresnipe; NV. C., graybacks, maggot-eaters, sea-chickens; NV. S., sand- 
peeps; Que., alouettes; R. J., marsh-birds, peeps; S. C., sand-chickens. 
COLLECTIVE BOOK NAMES. 
Alouettes de mer (sea larks), echassiers (stilts), oiseaux de rivage (shorebirds), 
sand-runners, strand-birds. 
Famity PHALAROPODIDAE: PHALAROPES. 
Boreal Phalaropes (Nos. 222 and 223). 
The two species known as the red phalarope and the northern phalarope breed in about the same areas 
of arctic coastland, and migrate southward in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It isnot surprising, 
therefore, that they share a number of names, particularly thoseinvented by sailors. The Wilson phalarope 
has somewhat different habits and range but undoubtedly is included under the same local names wher- 
ever it occurs With the other species. 
Vernacular names.—Bowhead-birds (from their association with whales of that name 
having the same food) (Northern Pacific Ocean); bank-birds, guli-birds (New Eng- 
land); hen snipe (Long Id., N. Y.); herring-birds, Jersey-geese (N. S., Me.); mack- 
erel-geese (New England); mahogany-birds, northeast-birds (Northern Atlantic); 
sea-geese (Northern Pacific, Northern Atlantic, Nid., N. SN Be Mass. ); 
sea snipe (Long Id., N. Y.); swimming-plover (Wash.); swimming snipe (BE Cr). 
whale-birds (Northern Pacific, New England). 3 
Book names.—Brown phalaropes, coot-footed tringas, lobefeet, red phalaropes, 
Swimming sandpipers. 
222. Red Phalarope (Phalaropus fulicarius). 
Range.—Northern and Southern hemispheres. In North America breeds from northern Alaska, Mel- 
ville Island, and northern Ellesmere Land south to mouth of the Yukon, northern Mackenzie (N. Wi Rs); 
central Keewatin (N. W. T.), Hudson Strait, and southern Greenland; winter home unknown but prob- 
ably on the oceans, at least as far south as Falkland and Juan Fernandez Islands; migrates along both 
coasts of United States; casual in migration in the interior south to Colorado, Kansas, Illinois, and 
Maryland. 
Vernacular names.—None except those of the foregoing list applied to all phala- 
ropes. 
Book names.—Brown bank-bird, brown phalarope, flat-billed phalarope, gray coot- 
footed tringa, gray phalarope, phalarope gris (gray phalarope), phalarope roux (rus- 
set phalarope), plain phalarope, red coot-footed tringa. 
