98 Miscellaneous Circular 13, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
163. American Scoter (Oidemia americana). | (Fic. 22.) 
Ieange.—N orthern North America and eastern Asia. Breeds in northeastern Asia and from Kotzebue 
Sound to Aleutian Islands,including Near Islands; occurs in summer on west shore of Hudson Bay, Ungava 
(Que.), and Newfoundland; winters on Asiatic coast to J apan and from islands of Bering Sea south rarely 
to Santa Catalina Island, California; in the interior not rare on the Great Lakes, and casual or accidental in 
Missouri, Louisiana Nebraska, Colorado, and Wyoming; on the Atlantic coast abundant during migra- 
tion from Newfoundland and Maine south (rarely to Florida). 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Coot. 
In local use.-—Beetlehead (N. Y.); black butterbill (Mass.); black coot (Mass., 
Conn., Long Id., N. Y.); booby duck (applied to the immature) (Long Id., N. Y.); 
broad-billed coot one Id., N. Y.); butter-bill (Me., N. H., Mass., R. I. - Conn.); but- 
ter-billed-coot (N.S., Me., Mass., Pee , Long Id., N. Y. , Va. ); butternose, copperbill, 
coppernose, fizzy (sometimes fitzy) (Mass. ); hollow-billed coot (Lone, ida Nv ¥e)- 
little gray coot (for the female and immature) (Mass.); punkin- blossom coot (Mass.), 
sleichbell duck (Me.); smutty, smutty coot (for the female and immature) (Mass.); 
whistling coot (Me., ROT , Conn., Del.); whistling duck (N. W. T.); ecto (Me., 
Mass. ); yellow- -pilled coot (R. Ee); ‘yellow- nosed coot (Long Id., N. Y. 
FIG. 22.—American Scoter. 
Geographic index.—Conn., black coot, butterbill, whistling coot; Del., whistling 
coot; Me., butterbill, butter-billed coot, sleighbell duck, whistling ‘coot, Yellowbill: 
Mass., black butterbill, black coot, butterbill, putternose, copperbill, coppernose, 
fitzy, fizzy, punkin- blossom coot, smutty, smutty coot, yellowbill; V. H., butterbill; 
N. Y., beetlehead, black coot, ‘booby duck, broad-billed coot, butter-billed coot, 
hollow-billed coot, Yyellow-nosed coot; V. W. T.. whistling duck; WV. S., butter- billed 
coot; Re £, butterbill, butter-billed coot, whistling coot, yellow- billed coot; Va., 
butter-billed coot. 
BOOK NAMES. 
American black scoter, American scoter duck, black diver, black scoter, black sea 
coot, canard macreuse d’Amérique (American scoter duck), macreuse d’Amérique 
(American scoter). 
164. Velvet Scoter (Oidemia fusca). 
Range.—Breeds in Iceland, northern Europe, and western Siberia; winters south to the Black and Cas- 
pian seas; accidental in Greenland. 
