No. SO.] BIRD NAMES. 107 



Point (near Eockland), Bath, Portland, and Pine Point, at Ports- 

 mouth, N. H., in Massachusetts at North Scituate, Barnstable, 

 Fairhaven, New Bedford, and Falmouth, and at Stony Creek, 

 Conn., BUTTER-BILL. In Maine at Machiasport, Jonesport, Mill- 

 bridge, and Kennebunk, and at Plymouth, Mass., YELLOW-BILL. 

 In Massachusetts at Pigeon Cove (Cape Ann), BUTTER-NOSE, 

 at North Plymouth, Fairhaven, and New Bedford, COPPER-NOSE 

 and COPPER-BILL, and at Edgartown, PUMPKIN-BLOSSOM COOT. 

 In Massachusetts at Salem and Cohasset, at Stonington, Conn., 

 and on Long Island at Shinnecock Bay and Bellport, BLACK 

 COOT ; the female (and young) being known at Salem as SMUTTY 

 COOT, at Chatham, same state, as FIZZY, and at Bellport and 

 Moriches, L. I., as BROAD-BILLED COOT. Of the species as a 

 whole, De Kay says (Zoology of New York, 1844) : " Known on 

 this coast under the name of Broad-billed Coot, and farther east 

 by the name of Butter-bill." To some at Cohasset, BLACK BUT- 

 TER-BILL, and at Stony Creek, Conn., WHISTLING -COOT; at 

 Hudson's Bay, according to Fauna Boreali-Americana, 1831, 

 WHISTLING DUCK (No. 23 being the " whistler" of people gen- 

 erally). 



I am credibly informed that in the vicinity of Bangely Lake, 

 Me., this bird is the SLEIGH-BELL DUCK; and according to 

 "Water Birds of North America, it is called the HOLLOW-BILLED 

 COOT on "the Atlantic side of Long Island," this being "a desig- 

 nation applied in New England exclusively to the Surf Duck " 

 (No. 29) — I have myself never heard the name used for any 

 fowl. 



The females and young (similar in appearance) are almost in- 

 variably regarded by duckers as a species distinct from the old 

 males, and though locally distinguished from the latter by names 

 previously mentioned, they are very generally classed under that 

 of GRAY COOT (see No. 29), and less commonly BROWN COOT. 

 The flesh of the young is highly esteemed by gunners, and, it 

 may be added, by almost every one who has ventured to try it. 



See note preceding No. 28. 



