Local Names of Migratory Game Birds. 29 
Book names.—Black diver, double scoter, double macreuse (double scoter), Euro- 
pean velvet scoter, grand macreuse (big scoter). 
165. White-winged Scoter (Oidemia deglandi). : (Frc. 23.) 
Range.—North America. Breeds from central Alaska and northern Mackenzie, south to central British 
Columbia, Alberta, and northern North Dakota; nonbreeding birds occur in summer in northeastern Asia 
northern Alaska, and northern Ungava (Que.), south to Virginia and Monterey, California; winters on the 
Asiatie coast to Bering Island, Japan, and China, and in North America from Unalaska Island to San 
Quintin Bay, Lower California, the Great Lakes (casually to Colorado, Nebraska, and Louisiana), and the 
Atlantic coast from the Gulf of St. Lawrence south (rarely) to Florida. ¢ 
White-winged scoters wintering on the Pacific Coast and no doubt breeding throughout the northern 
range a ie ies in America have been given the subspecific name Oidemia deglandi ditoni (Dixon white- 
winged scoter). 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In generar use.—White-winged coot, often shortened to coot, or whitewing, sometimes 
whitewinger. 
In local use.—Bay coot (for the female and immature) (Long Id., N. Y.); bell-tongue 
coot (Conn.); black duck (N. Y.); black whitewing (the male) (Mass.); brant coot 
(Long Id., N. Y.); brass-wing diver (Labr.); bull-coot (the male) (Conn., Long Id., 
N. Y.); bull whitewing’(the male) (Mass.); channel duck (Md.); eastern whitewing 
(Mass.); gray whitewing (for the female and immature) (Mass.); half-moon-eye (Me.); 
FIG. 23.—White-winged Scoter. 
ice duck (Va.); Klondike mallard (Calif.); May whitewing (Mass., R. I.); muscova 
(Ohio); old gray coot (Long Id., N. Y.); pied-winged coot (N. H., Mass.); sea brant 
(N. H.); sea coot (Oreg.); sea-horse (B. C.); ’semblymen (contraction of assemblymen) 
(Md.); Uncle Sam coot (Conn.); velvet duck (Que., R. I., Wis., Calif.); white-eyed 
coot, white-eye (Mass.); whitewing diver (Labr., Que.); white-winged scooter (N. C.). 
Geographic index.—B. C., sea-horse; Calif., Klondike mallard, velvet duck; Conn., 
bell-tongue coot, bull-coot, Uncle Sam coot; Labr., brass-wing diver, whitewing diver; 
Me., half-moon-eye; Md., channel duck, ’semblymen; JJass., black whitewing, bull 
whitewing, eastern whitewing, gray whitewing, May whitewing, pied-winged coot, 
white-eyed coot; N. H., pied-winged coot, sea brant; NV. Y., bay coot, black duck, 
brant coot, bull-coot, old gray coot; N. C., white-winged scooter; Ohio, muscova; 
Oreg., sea coot; Que., velvet duck, whitewing diver; R. J., May whitewing, velvet 
duck; Va., ice duck; Wis., velvet duck. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Black king-duck, black surf-duck, canard macreuse veloutée (velvet scoter duck), 
grand macreuse (big scoter), great May whitewing, Lake Huron scoter, macreuse 
veloutée (velvet scoter), velvet scoter, white-winged duck, white-winged sea coot, 
white-winged surf-duck, white-winged suri scoter. 
