32 Miscellaneous Circular 13, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
- Geographic index.—Ala., sleeper, stubtail; Ark., bristletail, bumble bee-buzzer; 
Calif., blackjack, dipper duck, hardhead, pintail, spatter, spatterer, tough-head, 
wiretail; Conn., booby, hardhead, hard-headed broadbill; Del., bristletail, pintail, 
steelhead, stiffy; D. C., bobber, rook, stifftail, water-partridge; Fla., diptail diver, 
fool duck; Ga., dumpling duck, hardhead, hardtack, stifftail; J7/., bullneck, stub- 
and-twist; Ind., blackjack, brown teal, wiretail; Ky., stifftail; Za., god-damn, marteau, 
stifftail; Me., blackjack, bluebill, broadbill, daub duck; Md., bobber, coot, dumb- 
bird, greaser, heavy-tailed duck, pintail, rook, salt-water teal, sleepy brother, steel- 
head, stifftail, water-partridge; Mass., broadbill dipper, creek coot, dapper, dipper, 
dopper, dumb bird, dun bird, goose widgeon, hardhead, murre, sleepy head, spoon- 
bill, stiff-tailed widgeon, tough-head, widgeon, widgeon coot; Mich., blackjack, deaf 
duck, dummy duck, fool duck, shotpouch, spiketail; Minn., Johnny Bull; Mo., 
butter duck, spinetail; Mont., little soldier, soldier duck; Nebr., bullneck; N. #H., 
bumblebee coot; N. J., hickoryhead, quilltail coot, salt-water teal, sleeping broad- 
bill, sleepy coot, sleepy duck, spinetail, steelhead, stifftail, stiffy; N. Y., booby, 
booby coot, chunk duck, dipper, fool duck, hardhead, spiketail, spoon-billed butter- 
ball, sticktail; N. C., booby, dinky, hardhead, lightwood-knot, noddy, paddy, 
paddywhack, sleepy head; Oreg., brown duck, wiretail; Pa., hardhead, steelhead, 
stifftail, stiffy; Quwe., canard roux; R. I., booby, broadbill; S. C., dicky, leatherback, 
leather-breeches; Tenn., shanty duck; Ter., bullneck, goose teal; Utah, muskrat 
Fis Siete 
FIG. 26.—Snow Goose. 
duck, rudder bird, rudder duck; Va., blatherskite, bobber. booby, bristletail, bull- 
neck, butterbowl, butter duck, mud dipper, pintail, sleeping booby, water-partridge; 
Wash., pintail, sinker, sleepy-jay, wiretail; Wis., buck-ruddy, pintail. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Brown diving teal, diving teal, dun diver, foolish coot, heavy-tailed coot, looby, 
quilltail coot, roody, ruddy diver, sprigtail. 
168. Masked Duck ( Nomonyx dominicus). 
Range.—Breeds in the West Indies and in eastern South America to central Argentina; occurs rarely 
and locally from the lower Rio Grande in Texas south to Mexico, Guatemala, and western South America; 
recorded also from Wisconsin, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maryland. 
Book names.—Canard 4 masque noir (duck with a black mask), Santo Domingo 
duck. 
Subfamily ANSERINAE: Geese and Tree Ducks. 
169. Snow Goose (Chen hyperborea). (Fic. 26.) 
Range.—Two subspecies of snow geese occur in America, and their ranges are separately defined: 
Lesser Snow Goose (Chen hyperborea hyperborea)—North America. Breeds from the mouth of the 
Mackenzie east probably to Coronation Gulf and Melville Island; occurs in summer on the Arctic coast of 
