20 BIRD NAMES. [No. 8. 



the sides. Upper parts chiefly grayish brown ; the feathers of 

 back and shoulder region edged with light brownish buff; wing- 

 mark, or speculum, blackish, with slight greenish gloss, and bor- 

 dered in front with white. Under surface of body nearly white, 

 the feathers immediately beneath the tail deep brown. Bill and 

 legs much as in the male. 



Young male (before beginning to assume dress of old drake), 

 very similar to female just described. 



Length eighteen to twenty -one inches; extent thirty to 

 thirty -four and a half inches ; bill (measured along the side) one 

 and five eighths to one and three quarter inches. 



Found throughout the whole country during migrations. 



WIDGEON (see Nos. 9, 12, 13, 17, 31) : more correctly the 

 AMERICAN WIDGEON (distinguishing it from Old World widg- 

 eon, A. penelope): BALD-PATE (see No. 29): GREEN-HEADED 

 WIDGEON. 



I find the name " Widgeon " in common use at North 

 Scituate, Mass. ;* on Long Island at Moriches, Bellport, and 

 Seaford (Hempstead) ; throughout New Jersey; at Norfolk, Va. ; 

 in the neighborhood of Chicago, and at Hennepin on the Illinois 

 Biver. 



We also hear " Bald-pate " at Chicago, and at Havre de Grace, 

 Md. ; and BALD-HEAD at Hennepin, and at Savannah, Ga. 



In Massachusetts (when encountered) it is known at Province- 

 town as SOUTHERN WIDGEON; at North Plymouth as CALI- 

 FORNIA WIDGEON; and in the vicinity of Edgertown as WHITE- 

 BELLY. This latter name is a familiar one also to the older 

 gunners of Milford, Conn. 



To some of the gunners of Detroit it is the POACHER, being 

 so called from its well-known habit of foraging upon the food 

 for which other ducks have dived. 



At Washington, D. C, Alexandria, Va., and Morehead, N C, 

 BALD-FACE (not recognized in latter locality by any other name). 



* It is not a common duck in New England, and I do not remember hear- 

 ing it referred to by any local name in Maine or New Hampshire. 



