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EON: at N"orth Plymouth, same state, AMERICAN WIDGEON* 

 (to some at least) ; and Mr. F. C. Browne gives TROOP-FOWL in 

 bis list of "gunners' names" at Plymouth Bay (Forest and 

 Stream, Nov. 9, 1876). 



Another title at Chicago is GRAY-BACK (see T^o. 16), and 

 certain gunners about Detroit prefer BLACK-NECK to the more 

 common Western term "• blue-bill." 



In Connecticut at Stonington, mouth of Connecticut Biver, 

 Stony Creek, and Stratford, BROAD-BILL (this being monopolized 

 at Bath, Me., and jS'ewport, R. I., by Ruddy Duck, I^o. 31 ; see 

 also ISTo. 14). I find latter name in like use in ISTew Jersey at 

 Barnegat, Tuckerton, Pleasantville (Atlantic Co.), and Cape May 

 City, and in Virginia at Richmond, 



The greater scaup is distinguished on Long Island at Shin- 

 necock Bay and l^.Ioriches as BAY BROAD-BILL, and again at 

 Shinnecock Bay as DEEP-WATER BROAD-BILL; at Bellport as 

 WINTER BROAD-BILL; and at Manasquan, N. J., as SALT-WATER 

 BROAD-BILL. Another name once common about Shinnecock 

 Bay, but now seldom heard, is MUSSEL-DUCK. 



Again at Pleasantville, N. J., and at Crisfield, Md., FLOCK- 

 DUCK; Crisfield duckers frequently, however, distinguish the 

 greater scaup as GREEN-HEAD (see iS^o. 6, to which this name 

 is usually applied). 



At the mouth of the Susquehanna, very commonly on the 

 Chesapeake, by some at Cape May C. H., at Eastville and 

 Cobb's Island, Va., and at Charleston, S. C, BLACK-HEAD; the 

 greater being particularized on the Chesapeake as BAY BLACK- 

 HEAD. I have heard the term "black-head" as far south as 

 St. Augustine, though SEA-DUCK and RAFT-DUCK are names 

 better understood by St. Augustine natives; the latter name 

 being equally popular at Savannah and Jacksonville. 



At Washington, D. C, and Alexandria, Ya., BAY-SHUFFLER. 



At Morehead, N. C, and Wilmington, same state, BLACK- 



* The American Widgeon of the books, No. 8, being locally known as 

 '' California Widgeon." Scaups are not common enough in the neighbor- 

 hood of Plymouth to require often a name of any kind, and No. 8 is rare. 



