Thanks to Thomas Love for providing the list of names from Chapman. I
really enjoyed the names discussion and I also enjoy reading old bird
books. Two of my favorites are _A First Book Upon the Birds of Washington
& Oregon_ (1913) by William Rogers Lord and _Birds of the Pacific States_
(1927) by Ralph Hoffman (exceptionally good book). Here's a short list I
gleaned from them:

Oregon Bay-winged Bunting Vesper Sparrow
Chewink Rufous-sided Towhee
Willow Goldfinch American Goldfinch
Short-billed Gull Mew Gull
Slender-billed Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch
Red-backed Sandpiper Dunlin
Snowflake Snow Bunting (Junco in Chapman?)
Townsend's Sparrow Fox Sparrow
Russet-backed Thrush Swainson's Thrush
Lutescent Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler
Pileolated Warbler Wilson's Warbler
Harris' Woodpecker Hairy
Gairdner's Woodpecker Downy
California Woodpecker Acorn
Northwestrn Vigor's Wren Bewick's Wren

The other aspect I enjoy about these books is the genuine appreciation
for the birds described. The accounts of the birds appearance and
behavior are fun to read, as in Hoffman's account of the Black-necked
Stilt: "When an observer first enters a marsh where Black-necked Stilts
are breeding, he will think he has entered an avian insane asylum.
Long-billed birds come yelping through the air over head; long-legged
birds stand yelping at the marsh or hop crazily up and down, or stand
with wings dragging, or stand with one wing up and one down as if in the
last stage of collapse." These books may not have detailed descriptions
about primary projections or tertial fringes, but they're a blast to read.

David Buckley
lsdb at u.washington.edu