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Lawson, in his ISTew Voyage to Carolina, 1709, says : " The 

 bald, or white faces are a good fowl ; they cannot dive, and are 

 easily shotten." 



At Oisfield, Md. (east shore of Chesapeake), and "Wilming- 

 ton, K C., BALD-CEOWN : at St. Augustine, Fla., BALD-FACED 

 WIDGEON. 



Dr. David Crary, of Hartford, Conn., tells me that while 

 shooting in Benton Co., Oregon, in 1885, he found this species 

 in enormous flocks on the wheat-fields, and that it was there 

 called the WHEAT-DUCK. 



Kobert Kennicott (cited by Baird, Brewer, and Kidgway) 

 speaks of its being known to voyageurs throughout the Fur 

 Countries as SMOKING-DUCK,* and Pennant, in his Arctic Zo- 

 ology, 1T85, tells of its being " sent from New York, under the 

 name of the Pheasant Duck ;" but the latter name (as others 

 have suggested) was probably applied by mistake. 



* Probably because its note was thought to resemble the puffing sound 

 made while smoking. 



