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sued, and, on the whole, it may be said of these coots, 

 and of the old-squaw, that they are not rapidly grow- 

 ing fewer in numbers. 



Besides the names already given, Mr. Trumbull tells 

 us that this duck is called horse-head and bald-pate, off 

 the coast of Maine ; patch-head, patch-polled coot and 

 white-scop, at other points on the New England coast ; 

 muscle-bill, pictured-bill and plaster-bill, snuff-taker, 

 spectacled-bill coot and spectacle coot, blossom-bill and 

 blossom-head, butter-boat-billed coot ; while the females 

 and young are called, at various points, pishaug, gray 

 coot and brown coot. 



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