Local Names of Migratory Game Birds. 95 
swallow-tailed duck; NV. S., hell’s-chicken, old-wife; Ohio, teet; Ont., coween: Pa. 
coween, pintail; Que., caccawee, coween, long-tailed duck, old-wife: R. I.. lone- 
tailed duck, south-southerly; Va., mammy duck, old-wife, south-southerly; Wash. 
jay-eye-see, longtail, long-tailed duck, 0-1; Wis., callithumpian duck, squaw. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Canard a longue queue (long-tailed duck), canard de Miclon (Miquelon duck), 
canard de Terre-Neuve (Newfoundland duck), long-tailed hareld, noisy duck, pied 
duck, squealing duck. 
155. Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus). (Fie. 20.) 
Range.—Northern North America and eastern Asia. Breeds from northeastern Asia, the Kowak and 
Yukon Rivers, Alaska, the Arctic coast of Canada, and Greenland, south to southwestern British 
Columbia, central Mackenzie (N. W. T.), northern Ungava (Que.), Newfoundland, and Iceland, and 
south in the mountains to central California, and southwestern Colorado; occursin summer in flocks near 
the Pribilofand Aleutian Islands and on the coast of Washington; winters on the Pacific coast from the 
Aleutian Islands to Japan, Monterey, California, in the interior to Colorado, Missouri, Lake Michigan, and 
western New York, and on the Atlantic coast from the Gulf of St. Lawrence regularly to Maine, rarely 
to New Jersey, and accidentally to Florida; accidentalin Europe. 
Harlequin ducks wintering on the Pacific Coast and no doubt breeding throughout the western range of 
the species in America and adjacent Asia have been given the subspecific name Histrionicus histrionicus 
pacificus (western harlequin duck). 
FIG. 20.—Harlequin Duck. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—None. 
In local use.—Blue-streak (Wash.); canard 4 collier (collared duck) (Que.); canne 
de roche (rock duck?) (Que.); circus duck (Oreg.); lord and lady (these names generally 
used together, but sometimes separated to indicate the sexes, which are also called 
cock lord and lady lord) (Nid. to Mass., B. C.); lord bird (Me.); mountain duck 
(Alaska, N. W. T.); painted duck (N. W. T., Wash., Oreg.); rock duck (Que., N.S., 
Wash.); sea-mouse (Me.); squealer (Me.); totem-pole duck (Oreg.); wood duck (B. C.). 
Geographic index.—Alaska, mountain duck; B. C., lord and lady, wood duck; Me., 
lord and lady, lord bird, sea-mouse; Mass., lord and lady; NV. B., lord and lady; N/d., 
lord and lady; NV. H., lord and lady; N. W. 7., mountain duck, painted duck; N. S., 
rock duck; Oreg., circus duck, painted duck, totem-pole duck; Que., canard a collier, 
canne de roche, rock duck; Wash., blue-streak, painted duck, rock duck. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Canard 4 collier de Terre-Neuve (collared duck of Newfoundland), canard arlequin 
(harlequin duck), canard histrion (actor duck), sea-pigeon. 
157. Steller Hider (Polysticta stellert). 
Range.—Coast of Bering Sea and adjacent Arctic Ocean. Breeds from Point Barrow, Alaska, to the 
- northern coast of Siberia and south to the Aleutian Islands; winters on the Aleutian Islands and Kena 
Peninsula, Alaska, and south on the Asiatic coast to the Kuril Islands; accidentalin Greenland and Quebec. 
Book names.—EHider de Steller, Steller’s duck, western duck. 
