DCHP-3

white-wing

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — N.S.

the willet, Catoptrophorus semipalmatus.

Quotations

1950
From May to August visitors to Chebogue see those large showy shore birds, the "Willets," locally known as "white-wings," and it is said that Yarmouth is the only place in the east where these rare birds may be seen.
1956
[The] Willet [is also called] . . . white-wing (When lifted, the wings have a percurrent white band bordered on each side by blackish, N.S.)
2n. — Prairies

the lark bunting, Calamospiza melanocorys.

Quotations

1963
. . . they began to see birds which were strange to them--small black ones with white wing patches, which the children at once called white wings, not knowing that they were lark buntings.