Local Names of Migratory Game Birds. ST 
BOOK NAMES. 
Black duck, black flusterer, box coot, canard de mer 4 large bec (broad-billed sea 
duck), canard du nord (northern duck), canard macreuse a large bec (broad-billed 
scoter duck), great bald coot, hollow-billed coot, long-billed scoter, lone-billed surf- 
duck, macreuse a large bec (broad-billed scoter), marchand (merchant, a French 
vernacular for scoter), picturedbill, Trowbridge’s surf-duck. 
167. Ruddy Duck (Erismatura jamaicensis). (Fie. 25.) 
Range.—North America. Breeds from central British Columbia, Great Slave Lake, southern Keewatin 
(N. W. 7T.), and northern Ungava ( Que.) south to northern Lower California, central Arizona, northern 
New Mexico, southwestern Nebraska, southern Minnesota, southern Michigan, southern Ontario, and 
Maine, and rarely and1ocallyin southern Lower California, Kansas, Massachusetts, Valley of Mexico, Lake 
Duenas, Guatemala, andin Cuba, Porto Rico, and Carriacou Island; winters from southern British Colum- 
bia, Arizona, New Mexico, southern Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maine, and south to the Lesser Antilles and 
Costa Rica; rare in migration to Newfoundland and Bermuda. 
VERNACULAR NAMES, 
In general use.—Butterball, ruddy duck, or ruddy. 
In local use —Canard roux (russet duck) (Que.); blackjack (Me., Mich., Ind., 
Calif.); blatherskite (varied to blatherscoot, blatterscoot, bladderscoot) (Va.); blue- 
bill (Me.); bobber (Potomac River): booby (R. I., Conn., Long Id., N. Y., Va., 
N. C.); booby coot (Long Id., N. Y.); bristletail (Del., Va., Ark.); broadbill (Me., 
R. I.); broadbill dipper (Mass.); brown duck (Oreg.); brown teal (Ind.); buck-ruddy 
Fie, 25.—Ruddy Duck. 
(Wis.); bullneck (Va., Ill., Nebr., Tex.); bumble-bee-buzzer (Ark.); bumble-bee coot 
(N. H.); butterbowl (Va.); butterduck (Va., Mo.); canard roux (russet duck) (Que.); 
chunk duck (N. Y.); coot (Md.); creek coot, dapper (Mass.); daub duck (Me.); deat 
duck RiAnRE dicky (S. C.); dinky (N. C.); dipper (Mass., Long Id., N. Y.); dipper 
duck (Calif.); dip-tail diver (Fla.); dopper (Mass.); dumb-bird (Mass., Md.); dump- 
ling duck (Ga.); dummy duck (Mich.); dun-bird (Mass.); fool duck (N. Y., Mich., 
Fla.); god-damn (La.); goose teal (Tex.); goose widgeon (Mass.); greaser (Md.); hard- 
head (Mass., Conn., Long Id., N. Y., Pa., N. C., Ga., Calif.); hard-headed broadbill 
Conn.); hardtack (Ga.); heavy-tailed duck (Md.); hickoryhead (N.J.); Johnny Bull 
Minn.); leatherback, leather-breeches (S. C.); light-wood-knot (N. C.); little soldier 
(Mont.); marteau (hammer) (La.); mud dipper (Va.); murre (Mass.); muskrat duck 
(Utah); noddy paddy, paddywhack (N. C.); pintail (Del., Md., Va., Wis., Wash., 
Calif.); quilltail coot (N. J., Md.); rook (Md., D. C.); rudder bird, rudder duck 
(Utah); salt-water teal (N. J., Md.); shotpouch (Mich.); shanty duck (Tenn.); sinker 
(Wash.); sleeper (Ala.); sleeping booby (Va.); sleepy broadbill (N.J.); sleepy brother 
Md.); sleepy coot, sleepy duck (N. J.); sleepy-head (Mass., N. C.); sleepy-jay 
Wash): soldier duck (Mont.); spatter, spatterer (Calif.); spiketail (N. Y., Mich.); 
spinetail (N. J., Mo.); spoonbill (Mass.); spoon-billed butterball (N. ¥ 5s) steelhead 
(N.J., Pa., Del., Md.); sticktail (Long Id., N. Y.); stifftail (N. d., Pas Ma. Dee 
Ga., Ky., La.); stiff-tailed widgeon (Mass.); stiffy (N.J., Pa., Del.); stub-and-twist 
(Ill.); stubtail (Ala.); tough-head (Mass., Calif.); water-partridge (Potomac River); 
widgeon, widgeon coot (Mass.); wiretail (Ind., Wash., Oreg., Calif.). 
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