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Local Names of Migratory Game Birds 63 
Geographic index.—Calif., candle-stick plover, gray plover, white-winged plover; 
Fla., bill-willie, stone-curlew, whitewing curlew; Ga., stone-curlew; La., telltale, 
vire-vire; Mass., humility, pied-winged curlew, whitewing; N. C., stone-curlew, 
will-willet; NV. S., whitewing; S. C., stone-curlew. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Big gray plover, chevalier semipalmé (semipalmated sandpiper), duck snipe, 
Henle willet, pill-will-willet, semipalmated snipe, semipalmated tattler, Spanish- 
plover. : : 
259. Wandering Tattler (Heteroscelus incanus °°). 
Range.—Two subspecies of this bird occurin America. Their ranges are: 
Alaskan Tattler (Heteroscelus incanus incanus).—Coasts and islands of the Pacific, interior Alaska, 
and Yukon Territory. Breeds from south central Alaska (Mount McKinley) to east central Yukon 
(Macmillan River) and south to Prince William Sound; occurs west to Norton Sound and northern Siberia: 
winters from Lower California to the Galapagos, in Hawaiiand Oceania; east in migration to Crater Lake, 
regon. 
Polynesian Tattler ( Heteroscelus incanus brevipes).—Eastern Siberia to Malay Archipelago, Poly- 
nesia, and Australia; ofaccidental occurrence on the Pribilof Islands. 
Fic. 47.—Upland Plover. 
Vernacular name.—The only local name learned for this species is rock snipe, in 
use for the Alaskan tattler in Oregon and California. 
260. Ruff (Philomachus pugnax*). 
Range.—Eastern Hemisphere. Breeds from the Arctic coast south to Great Britain, Holland, Russia, 
and Siberia; winters throughout Afriea, India, and Burma; strays occasionally to the Western Hemi- 
sphere, from Ontario, Greenland, and the Pribilof Islands south to Indiana, North Carolina, the Barbados, 
and northern South America. 
Names.—Although there are more numerous records of the occurrence of this bird 
in America than of most of the casual species, no local names, so far as known, have 
been applied to it. In Great Britain the exclusive names are ruff for the male and 
reeve for the female; in France the male is called paon (peacock) and the female, 
sotte (fool). Book names are yellow-legged sandpiper, combatant (fighter), and paon 
de mer (sea peacock). 
<61. Upland Plover (Bartramia longicauda). (T'te. 47.) 
Range.—North and South America. Breeds from northwestern Alaska, southern Mackenzie (N.W.T.), 
central Keewatin (N. W. T.), central Wisconsin, southern Michigan, southern Ontario, and southern 
Maine to southern Oregon, northern Utah, central Oklahcma, southern Missouri, southern Indiana, and 
northern Virginia; winters on the pampas of South America to Argentina; in migration cccurs north to 
Newfoundland and in Europe; accidental in Australia. 
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30 Heteractiis incanus. 31 Machetes pugnat. 
