94 Miscellaneous Circular 13, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Bufialo-headed duck, buffle duck, buffle-headed duck, bumble-bee duck, butter- 
back, canard 4 grosse ‘téte (big-headed duck), cannonball, conjuring duck, devil 
dipper, diedipper, dummy duck, little black and white duck (male), little brown 
duck (female), petit bucéphale (little bullhead), petit canard a grosse téte (little duck 
with the big head), religieuse (member of a religious order, suggested by the bird’s 
coloration), ‘salt-water teal, s sleepy diver. 
154. Old-squaw (Clangula hyemalis 3°). (Fie. 19.) 
Range.—Northern Hemisphere. In North America breeds from islands of Bering Sea, Arctic coast of 
Alaska, Melville Island, Wellington Channel, Grinnell Land, and northern Greenland, south to Aleutian 
Islands, east-central Mackenzie. (N. W. T.), northern Hudson Bay, and southeastern Ungava (Que.); 
winters from Aleutian Islands south regularly to Washington, rarely to San Diego Bay, California, and in 
southern Greenland, and from Gulf of ‘St. Lawrence south regularly to the Great Lakes and North Caro- 
lina, and rarely to Colorado, Texas, Louisiana, and Florida. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use —Old-squaw. 
In local use—Callithumpian duck (refers to the bird’s varied notes—imprevised 
bands of uncertain musical ability are called callithumpian bands) (Wis.); caccawee 
(also spelled cockawee, kakawi, and in other ways) (Labr., Que., Me., Mich. ); coween 
(also spelled cowheen, cowine, and in other ways) (Que., Ont., Conn., N- ¥.- Pas 
Mich., Ill., B. C.); granny (N. J.); ha-ha-way (Cree Indian name from the note, as 
Fic. 19. ole 
are so many of the names of this species); hell’s-chicken (N.S.); hound (Nid. agi ae 
Mass.); jack-owly (Minn.); by eyes see (Wash.); kla-how-yah (Indian name) (B.C ): 
knock-molly (N. aC: ); longtail (N. Y., Alta., Wash. ); long-tailed duck (Que., R. I., 
Conn., Md., Alaska, Wash. , Calif.); mammy duck (Va.); mommy (N.J.); o- -i (Wash.): 
old- billy (for the males) (N. J.); old-granny (N.J.); old-injun (males) (Mass., Conn.); 
old-mammy (Long Id., N. Y.); old- molly (N. J.); old-wife (sometimes written alewife 
or contracted to ol- -wy ‘e—the term o- 1, above, probably is an extreme shortening of 
old-wife) (Labr., N. S., Que., N. H., Mass., N. Y., N. J., Md., Va.); organ duck 
(Alaska) ; pintail (Pa., Mich.): quandy (Mass. ye scoldenore (N. H. }: scolder (Mass. ); 
singing duck (Alaska): siwash (B. C.); sou-sou- “sally duck (Alaska); south- southerly 
(a name much varied as s’o’ther, southerland, southerly, south- south- southerly, etc.) 
(R. I. to Va.); squaw (N. Y., Wis. iF swallow-tailed duck (Man., N. W. T); teet 
(Ohio); winter duck (Mich., Tll.). 
Geographic index.—Alaska, long-tailed duck, organ duck, singing duck, sou-sou- 
sally duck; Alta., longtail; 'B. C., coween, kla-how- yah, siwash; Calif. long-tailed 
duck; Conn., coween, long-tailed duck, old-injun, “south- southerly; Iil., coween, 
winter duck; Labr., caccawee, hound, old-wife, Me., caccawee; Man., swallow-tailed 
duck; Md., long-tailed duck, old-wife, south-southerly; Mass., hound, old-injun, 
old-wife, quandy, scolder; Grae caccawee, coween, pintail, winter dick; Minn., 
jack-owly; Nfd., hound; N. #., old- -wife, scoldenore; VV. J., granny, Mommy, old- 
billy, old- -oranny, old- molly, old-wiie, south-southerly; N. Y., coween, longtail, old- 
mammy, old- wife, south- southerly, squaw; NV. C., knock-molly; N. Weak, , ha-ha-way, 
16 Harelda hyemalis. 
