Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 358
t ofthese absurd names. Imagine the whippoorwiil being called ahawk; yet the night-hawk is closely related toa whippoorwiil, and much resembles it, and bothof them are much more closely related to swal-lows than to hawks. Although our golden plover is sometimes called,not inaptly, field-plover, we… … LOUISIANA\V.\TER-THRUSH. he km it-thrush.ok.\n<;e-crowned thrush,or oven-bird. (lhese birds are really warblers,) piper, it is more closely related to the commontip-up of our shores than to the plovers. Butthe field is appropriate enough, for the bird iscommonly found in quite dry, open fields,…
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