Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 358
BARTRAMIAN SANDPIPER (OFTEN MISCALLED FIELD-PLOVER), AND A TRUE PLOVER, THE KILDEER-PLOVER, SO-tALLED FROM ITS CRV. simply because of the locality in which they hap-pened to be first found or described, or in which,to some one early observer, they seemed to beespecially numerous. Canadian warbler… … BLACK-DUCK (SO-CALI.EIJ, THOUOH IT IS NOr BLACK.) wild geese and a great many of our warblers aresimilarly, and at least equally, Canadian. Still other inappropriate names for our com-mon birds are sparrow-hawk, for a little hawkwhich feeds chiefly on mice and large insects,screech-owl, for an owl…
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