U2 BIRD NAMES. [No. 31. 



and Giraud, 1844, speaks of its being known by this name to 

 gunners of Chesapeake Bay; in St. Augustine, Fla., BROWN 

 DIVING TEAL. 



In the vicinity of Philadelphia, at Somers Point, 1ST. J., to 

 some at Washington, D. C., and at Savannah, Ga., STIFF-TAIL ; at 

 Tuckerton, N. J., QUILL-TAIL COOT ; at St. Georges, Del. (Dela- 

 ware and Chesapeake Canal), and to some at Havre de Grace, 

 PIN-TAIL (the Pin-tail duck of books, &c., No. 13, being the 

 "Sprig-tail" in these localities); called also BRISTLE-TAIL at 

 St. Georges, and referred to in an article on " Chesapeake duck 

 shooting," by Dr. I. T. Sharpless, Cab. Nat. Hist., Vol. I., 1830 

 (" Doughty's Cabinet "), as HEAVY-TAILED DUCK. In index to 

 Giraud's Birds of Long Island, STICK-TAIL ; in Turnbull's Birds 

 of East Pennsylvania and New Jersey, SPINE-TAIL; at St. Au- 

 gustine, Fla., DIP-TAIL DIVER; in De Kay's Zoology of New 

 York, DUN-DIVER; in Samuels's O. and O. of New England, 

 RUDDY DIVER; and Nuttall (1834), speaks of its being "common 

 in the market of Boston," and " generally known " as DUN-BIRD. 



At Manasquan, N. J., HICKORY-HEAD ; at Havre de Grace, 

 Md., GREASER, this being the commonest name here for the 

 species ; and William Wagner, a well known Washington gun- 

 ner, tells of hearing it called WATER-PARTRIDGE, and STEEL- 

 HEAD, on the Patuxent River, Md. (their Partridge being Bob- 

 white, No. 42); in the markets of Washington the Ruddy is 

 known as ROOK. Just think of it, a duck called a rook under 

 the very shadow of the Smithsonian. 



At Newberne, N. C., PADDY and NODDY. Any one familiar 

 with the species will understand why such terms as " noddy," 

 " sleepy-head," " fool-duck," " booby," etc., are applied ; for 

 though these ducks are clever enough after having been wounded 

 or thoroughly aroused by the slaughter of their companions, 

 they are exceedingly stupid at other times. If they have not 

 been recently fired at, they exhibit very little fear at the ap- 

 proach of a boat, and even after having been awakened from 

 their dreams by the report of a gun, they will sometimes fly in 

 a dazed manner directly towards the shooter, and alight again 

 within easy shot. Two of the names referred to in this con- 



