DCHP-1 Online
white-wing 
1 n. N.S. the willet, Catoptrophorus semipalmatus.
- 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.)
2 n. Prairies the lark bunting, Calamospiza melanocorys.
- 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.
- 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.