. Names and portraits of birds which interest gunners, with descriptions in languages understanded of the people;. Game and game-birds; Birds. 68 BIRD NAMES. [No. 21. He was charmingly ignorant, of course, of what he ate, but when informed a short time after, he not only succeeded in re- taining his food, but confessed like a man that Shinnecock shel- drakes, at least, were a Bill of No. 21. RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. RED-BREASTED GOOSANDER of Edwards's Natural History of Birds,Vol. II., 1747. Very generally known as SHELDRAKE from Eastport, Me., to— I can only say, lower waters of Ches
. Names and portraits of birds which interest gunners, with descriptions in languages understanded of the people;. Game and game-birds; Birds. 68 BIRD NAMES. [No. 21. He was charmingly ignorant, of course, of what he ate, but when informed a short time after, he not only succeeded in re- taining his food, but confessed like a man that Shinnecock shel- drakes, at least, were a Bill of No. 21. RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. RED-BREASTED GOOSANDER of Edwards's Natural History of Birds,Vol. II., 1747. Very generally known as SHELDRAKE from Eastport, Me., to— I can only say, lower waters of Chesapeake, as I have no note of hearing it used for the species farther south than Eastville, Northampton Co., Va. (See No. 20, a bird sometimes confounded with this; and also odd use of " Sheldrake " under No. 15.) Certain names more especially distinguishing this from " Sheldrakes" Nos. 20 and 22, and other exceptions to above- mentioned general use of the name, are noted as follows: At Bath, Me., SPRING-SHELDRAKE; at Eowley, Mass., SEA- ROBIN, or ROBIN simply; at Stonington, Conn., though the name Sheldrake is more or less used for both sexes, many gun- ners distinguish the female as SHELDDCK, and this latter form is common for both sexes in New Jersey at Pleasantville (At- lantic Co.), Cape May C. H, and Cape May City. At Essex, Conn., LONG ISLAND SHELDRAKE; at Barnegat. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Trumbull, Gurdon, 1841-1903. New York, Harper
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