380 Miscellaneous Circular 13, U.S. Dept. of Sgeodnee 
166. Surf Scoter (Oidemia perspicillata). (Fie. 24.) 
Range-—North America. Breeds on the Pacific coast from Kotzebue Sound to the mouth of the Yukon 
River and east to Great Slave Lake; nonbreeding birds occur in summer in northeastern Siberia and south 
on the Pacific coast to Lower California, and in Greenland and south on the Atlantic coast to Long Island; 
winters on the Pacific coast from the Aleutian Islands south to San Quintin Bay, Lower California, on the 
Great Lakes, and south casually to Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, and Louisiana, and on the Atlantic 
coast from Nova Scotia to North Carolina, rarely to Florida; casual in Bermuda; frequent in Europe. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use. —Coot. 
In local use.—Bald-headed coot (New England, Long Id., N. Y.); baldpate (Me.); 
bay coot (N. J.); black coot (Long Id., N. Y.); black sea-duck (Long Id., N. Y., 
N.J.); blossombill, blossomhead (N. J.); bottle-nosed diver (Labr.); butterboat-bill, 
butterboat-billed coot (Me., Mass.); gogglenose (Me.); horsehead, horsehead coot 
(Me.); Jew duck (Oreg.); king coot (Me.); moroccojaw (Long Id., N. Y.); musselbill 
(Me.); patchbill (R. I.); patch-head (Me., R. I.); patch-head coot (Me.); patch-polled 
coot (N.S., Mass., R. I., Conn., Long Id., N. Y., Va.); pishaug (for the female and 
immature) (Mass., R. I.); plasterbill (Mass.); river coot (Wash.); rottenbill (Long Id., 
N. Y.); ’scovy (contraction of muscovy) (Va.); sea coot (Long Id., N. Y., N.J., Del., 
B. C., Oreg., Calif.); skunkbill, skunkbill coot (Me.); skunkhead, skunkhead coot 
(New England, Long Id., N. Y.); skunktop (Conn.); sleepy diver (Labr., Que.); snuff- 
SESE 
Fig. 24.—Surf Scoter. 
taker, speckle-billed coot (Conn.); spectacle coot (Conn., Long Id., N. Y.); spectacle 
duck (Long Id., N. Y.); surf coot (Me., Long Id., N. Y.); surf duck (R. I., Conn., 
Long Id., N. Y.); surf scooter (N.C.); surfer (Mass.); whitebill coot, whitehead (Long 
Id., N. Y.); whitehead coot (N. H.); whitescop (Conn.). 
Geographic index.—B. C., sea coot; Cal:f., sea coot; Conn., baldheaded coot, patch- 
polled coot, skunkhead, skunkhead coot, skunktop, snufftaker, speckle-bill coot, 
spectacle coot, surf duck, whitescop; Del., sea coot; Labr., bottie-nosed diver, sleepy 
diver; Me., bald-headed coot, baldpate, butterboat-bill, butterboat-billed coot, gog- 
glenose, horsehead, horsehead coot, king coot, musselbill, patchhead, patchhead 
coot, skunkbill, skunkbill coot, skunkhead, skunkhead coot, surf coot; Mass., bald- 
headed coot, butterboat-bill, butterboat-billed coot, patch-polled coot, pishaug, plas- 
ter-bill, skunkhead, skunkhead coot, surfer; NV. H., bald-headed coot, skunkhead, 
skunkhead coot, whitehead coot; N. J., bay coot, black sea-duck, blossombill, blos- 
somhead, sea coot; VV. Y., black-headed coot, black coot, black sea-duck, morocco- 
jaw, patch-polled coot, rottenbill, sea coot, skunkhead, skunkhead coot, spectacle 
coot, spectacle duck, surf coot, surf duck, whitebill coot, whitehead; NV. C., surf 
scooter; NV. S., patch-polled coot; Oreg., Jew duck, sea coot; Que., sleepy diver; R. J., 
bald-headed coot, patchbill, patchhead, patch-polled coot, pishaug, skunkhead, 
skunkhead coot, surf duck; Va., patch-polled coot, ’scovy; Wash., river coot, 
