Cape drake

[< F Cap de race, Cape Race, Nfld, by folk etymology]

N.S.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1956

Red-throated Loon . . . Cape drake (. . . N.S.).

1961

For reasons I have never been able to determine, shore-hunters commonly refer to this bird as "Cape drake."

1965

. . . the smaller red-throated loons [are] known locally (for some unfathomed reason) as Cape drakes.