20 Miscellaneous Circular 15, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
VERNACULAR NAMES.!° 
In general use.—Big bluebill. 
In local use—American widgeon (Mass.); bay blackhead (Md.); bay broadbill 
(Long Id., N. Y.); bay shuffler (Md., Va.); big bay bluebill (B. C.); big blackhead 
(N. Y., Md., N. C., Calif.); big broadbill (Long Id., N. Y.); big fall-duck (N. W. T.); 
black-headed broadbill (Long Id., N. Y.); black-headed duck (Md.); black-headed 
raft-duck (N. C.); blue-billed widgeon (Mass.); broadbill bluebill ( Wis.) ; canvasback 
bluebill (Wis.); deep-water broadbill (Long Id., N. Y.); dos grisde mer (sea grayback) 
(La.); greenhead (Md.); lake bluebill (Ont., N. Y., Mich.); laker (N. Y.); mussel-duck 
(Long Id., N. Y.); salt-water broadbill (N. J.); sea dos-gris (sea grayback) (La.); sea- 
duck (Fla.); troop duck, troop fowl (Mass.); winter broadbill (Long Id., N. Y.). 
Geographic index.—B. C., big bay bluebill; Calif., big blackhead; Fla., bullhead, 
sea-duck; La., dos gris de mer, sea dos-gris; Md., bay blackhead, bay shuffler, big 
blackhead, black-headed duck, greenhead; Mass., American widgeon, blue-billed 
widgeon, troop duck, troop fowl; Mich., lake bluebill; NV. J., salt-water broadbill; 
N. Y., bay broadbiil; big blackhead, big broadbill, black-headed broadbill, deep- 
water broadbill, lake bluebill, laker, mussel duck, winter broadbill; NV. C., big black- 
head, blackheaded raft-duck; NV. W. T., big fall duck; Ont., lake bluebill; Va., bay 
shuffler; Wis., broadbill bluebill, canvasback bluebill. 
BOOK NAMES. 
American scaup duck, bluehead, bullet-winged duck, canard morillon 4 téte noire 
(black-headed crested duck), greater blackhead, greater biuebill, greater broadbill, 
greater scaup, gros canard d’automne (big fall duck), milouinan (French vernacular 
name indicating relationship to the milouin, or pochard), morillon 4 téte noire (black- 
headed crested duck), petit morillon rayé (little streaked crested duck), scaup duck. 
149. Lesser Scaup Duck (Fuliz affinis 1). 
Range.—North America. Breeds from the Yukon Valley, Alaska, and Fort Anderson, Mackenzie 
(N. W. T.), south to central British Columbia, southern Montana, Colorado (casually), northern Iowa, 
northern Indiana, and western Lake Erie; winters from southern British Columbia, Nevada, Colorado, 
Lake Erie, and New Jersey south to the Bahamas, Lesser Antilles, and Panama;rare in migrationin New- 
foundland, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia; accidentalin Greenland and Bermuda. 
VERNACULAR NAMEsS.!° 
In general use.—Little bluebill. 
In local use.—Blue-billed shoveler (R. I.); booby (Tex.); canvasback (Fla., Wash.); 
cottontail bluebill (Va.); creek blackhead (Md.); creek broadbill (R. I., Long Id., 
N. Y., N. J.); fresh-water broadbill, Goshen broadbill (N. J.); greenhead broadbill 
(Long Id., N. Y.); howden (Nfd., Labr.); lake duck (La.); little bay bluebill (B. C.); 
little blackhead (N.J., Md., Tex., Calif.); little blackhead duck (R. I., N. C.); little 
broadbill (Conn.); little creek broadbill (Long Id., N. Y.); little ducks (La.); little 
erayback (Ala., La.); marsh bluebill (Ont., N. Y.); mud bluebill (N. J.); mud broad- 
bill (Long Id., N. Y.); polridge (Wash.); pond broadbill (N. J.); river bluebill (N. Y., 
Mich.); river shuffler (Potomac River); river broadbill (Long Id., N. Y.); summer 
duck (Man.);swamp bluebill (N. Y.). 
Geographic index.—Ala., little grayback; B. C., little bay bluebill; Calif., little 
blackhead; Conn., little broadbill; Fla., canvasback; Labr., howden; La., black duck, 
lake duck, little ducks, little grayback; Man., summer duck; Md., creek blackhead, 
little blackhead, river shuffler; Mich., river bluebill; N/d., howden; N. J., creek 
broadbill, fresh-water broadbill, Goshen broadbill, mud bluebill, pond broadbill; 
N. Y., creek broadbill, greenhead broadbill, little blackhead, little creek broadbill, 
marsh bluebill, mud broadbill, river bluebill, river broadbill, swamp bluebill; WV. C., 
little blackhead duck; Ont., marsh bluebill; R. J., blue-billed shoveler, creek broad- 
bill, little blackhead duck; Tex., booby, little blackhead; Va., cottontail bluebill, 
river shuffler; Wash., canvasback, polridge. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Cannonball, lesser blackhead, lesser broadbill, lesser scaup, little raft duck, petit 
canard morillon, petit morillon (little tufted duck), river duck, river scaup. 
10 See preceding section, p. 19, for names applied to both the greater and the lesser scaup ducks. 
il Marila affinis. 
