Local Names of Migratory Game Birds. 27 
For the northern eider—Dunter goose, eider du nord (northern eider), Greenland 
eider, northern eider duck, oie 4 duvet (down goose). 
For the southern erder.—American eider, Dresser’s eider, eider d’A mérique (American 
eider). 
161. Pacific Eider (Somateria v-nigra). 
Range.—Coasts of Bering Sea and adjacent Arctic Ocean. Breeds from northeastern Siberia and Arctic 
America as far east as Coppermine River, south to the Commander and Aleutian Islands and Cook Inlet; 
winters in Bering Sea, about the Aleutian Islands; occasional on Great Slave Lake; accidental in Kansas. 
Vernacular names.—Canvasback (Alaska, Yukon, N. W. T.); eider, eider duck 
(Wash., Oreg.); large pistrik (pistrik the Russian name for eider) (Alaska); sea duck 
(Oreg.). 
162. King Hider (Somateria spectabilis). 
Range.—Northern part of Northern Hemisphere. Breeds along the whole coast of northern Siberia, 
Bering Sea (St. Lawrence Island), and Arctic coast of America from Icy Cape east to Melville Island, Wel- 
lington Channel, northern Greenland, northwestern Hudson Bay, and northern Ungava (Que.); winters 
on Pacific coast from Aleutian Islands to Kodiak Island, in the interior rarely to the Great Lakes, and 
from southern Greenland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence south regularly to Long Island, rarely to Georgia; 
accidental in California and Iowa. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—None. 
In local use.—Canvasback (Alaska, Yukon, N. W. T.); cousin (Mass.); Isle-of- 
Shoals duck (Long Id., N. Y.); king-bird (Nfid., Labr.); king duck (Labr.); king 
eider (Me., Long Id., N. Y.); mongrel drake (Me.); passing duck (Labr.); pistrik 
(eider) (Alaska); sea duck (Me.); wamp’s-cousin (Mass.). 
Geographic index.—Alaska, canvasback, pistrik; Labr., king-bird, king duck, 
passing duck; Me., king eider, mongrel drake, sea duck; Mass., cousin, wamp’s- 
cousin; Nfd., king-bird; N. Y., Isle-of-Shoals duck, king eider; N. W. T., canvas- 
back; Yukon, canvasback. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Hider, eider remarquable, gray-headed duck. 
Scoters (Oidemia). Nos. 163, 165, and 166. 
Our three native species of scoters have approximately the same range and a number 
of collective names have been applied to them in addition to terms indicating the 
separate species. To avoid repetition these collective names are listed together, 
preceding the names of more specific application. 
COLLECTIVE VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In generai use.—Coots. Sane 
In-local use.—Bay muscovies (Md.); beach-combers (Puget Sound); black ducks 
(Alaska, Man., Alta.); boobies (Pa., Md., D. C., N. ©.); deaf ducks (Que.); brown 
coots, gray coots (the females and immature) (Me., Mass., R. I., Conn.); Indian ducks 
(Wash.); iron-pots, old iron-pots (N. J.); macreuses (macreuse, the specific French 
vernacular for scoter, is traceable to an old word meaning spotted) (Que.); nigger 
ducks (Ky.); niggerheads (eastern Canada); rock ccots (Long Id., N. Y.); scooters 
(Conn., N. Y., N. C.); scutter ducks (Calif.); sea coots (Md., N. C.); stwash ducks, 
squaw ducks (B. C., Wash.); tar-buckets, tar-pots (Md., IIl.). 
Geographic index.—Alaska, black ducks; Alta., black ducks; B. C., siwash ducks, 
squaw ducks; Calif., scutter ducks; Conn., brown coots, gray coots, scooters; D. C., 
boobies; JUl., tar-pots; Ky., nigger ducks; Me., brown coots, gray coots; Man., black 
ducks; Md., bay muscovies, boobies, sea coots, tar-buckets, tar-pots; JMass., brown 
coots, gray coots; NV. B., nigger-heads; N. J., iron-pots, old iron-pots; VV. Y., scooters; 
NV. C., boobies, scooters, sea coots; N. S., niggerheads; Ont., niggerheads; Pa., boobies; 
Que., deaf ducks, macreuses, niggerheads; R. J., brown coots, gray coots; Wash., 
beachcombers, Indian ducks, siwash ducks, squaw ducks. 
COLLECTIVE BOOK NAMES. 
Scoters, scoter ducks, sea ducks, surf ducks. 
