yellow hammer

• Format: Manuscript
• Language: English
• Subjects: English language > Dialects > Newfoundland and Labrador; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/elrcdne/id/67693

yellow a The name 'yellow hammer,' brought to Newfoundland by some traveller, was applied without reason to the Newfoundland yellow warbler, one of several yellow birds which not only does not hammer on anything, but would be quite incapable of doing anything other than tap very gently with its tiny warbler's beak. Other yellowish warblers are also indiscriminately called 'yellow hammers,' however, . PRINTED ITEM DNE-cit W.J. KIRWIN Used I and Sup Used I and Sup 1 Used I yellow, ~ -belly, ~hammer, ~jacket, ~mores, ~snakeroot