. A dictionary of birds . Mji SPONSA. Dendeocygna. (After Swainson.) in that condition Avill produce fertile hybrids with the commonDuck; and finally the Tree-Ducks {Dendrocygna), Avhich are almostlimited to the Tropics. DUCKEE,, see Doucker. DULWILLY, said to be a local name of the Ringed Plover,A^gialitis hiaticola ; and, according to Prof. Skeat, signifying dullof will or stupid, though the application of such a name is notobvious. (See, however. Dotterel.) ^ To tliese belong apparently the genera Cheoialopex and Plectropterus, thoughfrom their size the species of each bears in English the

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. A dictionary of birds . Mji SPONSA. Dendeocygna. (After Swainson.) in that condition Avill produce fertile hybrids with the commonDuck; and finally the Tree-Ducks {Dendrocygna), Avhich are almostlimited to the Tropics. DUCKEE,, see Doucker. DULWILLY, said to be a local name of the Ringed Plover,A^gialitis hiaticola ; and, according to Prof. Skeat, signifying dullof will or stupid, though the application of such a name is notobvious. (See, however. Dotterel.) ^ To tliese belong apparently the genera Cheoialopex and Plectropterus, thoughfrom their size the species of each bears in English the name of Goose. 172 DUNBIRD—DUNLIN DUNBIRD, DUNCUE or DUKKER, names of the Pochard. DUNLIN, tlie common name of the commonest of shore-birds,the Tringa alpina and T. cinclus of Linnseus, who, not knowing thegreat seasonal change of plumage it undergoes, took examples intheir summer dress to be specifically distinct from those in thatwhich it wears in winter—an error, long shared by many writers,which Montagu in 1813 (O

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