See quotations.
1634. The Humilities or Simplicities (as I may rather call them) bee of two sorts, the biggest being as big as a greene Plover, the other as big as birds we call Knots in England.—W. Wood, ‘New England Prosp.’ (1865), p. 34. (N.E.D.)
1781. Larks, humilitys, whipperwills, dewminks [are named among the native birds].—Samuel Peters, ‘History of Connecticut,’ p. 255 (Lond.).
