No. 29.] BIRD NAMES. 103 



of an adult male killed in December, two pounds and three 

 and a quarter ounces. 



Range : chiefly coasts of North America, but also found on 

 inland waters ; breeding far north, and moving south in winter 

 to the Carolina^, Ohio and Kansas rivers, Lower California, and 

 even to the Island of Jamaica. 



SURF SCOTER: SURF DUCK: BLACK DUCK of Pennant, 1785 

 (see Nos.7,28): in Edwards's Natural History of Birds, Part III., 

 1750, it is " the great Black Duck from Hudson's Bay." 



In Maine at Eastport, Millbridge, Bois Bupert Island, French- 

 man's Bay, and Portland, HORSE-HEAD COOT, or HORSE-HEAD; 

 to some at Eastport, BALD-PATE (see No. 8); at Machiasport 

 and Jonesport, SKUNK-BILL; at Portsmouth, N. II., in Massa- 

 chusetts at Pigeon Cove, Cohasset, North Scituate, North Plym- 

 outh, Barnstable, Chatham, and Falmouth, at Stony Creek, 

 Conn., and on Long Island at Shinnecock Bay and Moriches, 

 SKUNK-HEAD (the name Skunk-bill being, doubtless, a perver- 

 sion) ; at Essex, Conn., SKUNK-TOP; and Mr. F. C. Browne gives 

 SURFER, in his list of "gunners' names," at Plymouth Bay, 

 Forest and Stream, November 9, 1876. In Maine, at Winter 

 Harbor, GOOGLE-NOSE, originally Goggle-nose, I presume; at 

 Ash Point (near Rockland), Bath, Portland, Pine Point, and Ken- 

 nebunk, PATCH-HEAD ; in Massachusetts at Fairhaven and New 

 Bedford, to many upon Martha's Vineyard, and at Stonington, 

 Conn., PATCH-POLLED COOT; at Bridgeport, Conn., to some of 

 the gunners at least, WHITE-SCOP (referring to the white of the 

 head, "scop" being old English for head or scalp). To some at 

 Kennebunk, Me., MUSCLE-BILL; in Massachusetts at Salem, 

 PICTURED -BILL; at Chatham, PLASTER -BILL. In Conn., at 

 Stony Creek and Milford, SNUFF-TAKER (the drake's variegated 

 beak reminding duckers of a careless snuff -taker's nose); at Strat- 

 ford, SPECKLED -BILL COOT and SPECTACLE COOT (this latter 

 name like Goggle-nose, the patches of black, one at either side 

 of the bill, being likened to colored spectacles); Giraud writes 

 (1844): "SPECTACLE DUCK, as it is by some called." At Bell- 

 port, L. L, MOROCCO-JAW and WHITE -HEAD. In New Jersey 



