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Cape drake [< F Cap de race, Cape Race, Nfld, by folk etymology] N.S.

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  See also: cape-race(r)  

  • 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.