Local Names of Migratory Game Birds. 19 
COLLECTIVE VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Bluebills. 
In local use.—Black ducks (Miss., La.); blackheads (Mass. to Fla. and Ala., Wash.) 
_ (aname especially common from Del. to Fla.); blackjacks (Calif.); blacknecks (Mich., 
Wis., Nebr.); broadbills (Mass. to N. C., Wash., Calif.) (like blackheads, this is an 
introduced name westwardly); bullheads (Fla., Ala.); bullnecks (N. C., S. Cys 
butterballs (lowa); dosgris (grayback, sometimes corrupted to dogs) (Ala., Miss., 
La.); fall ducks (Man., Alta.); flock ducks (N. J., Md., Va.); graybacks (Ill.,La.); 
rait ducks (Md. to Fla.); shufflers (Md. to N. C.); widgeons (N. B. to R. I.). 
Geographic index.—Ala., blackheads, bullheads, dos gris, dogs; Alta., fall ducks; 
Calif., blackjacks, broadbills; Conn., blackheads, broadbills; Del., blackheads, broad- 
bills; D. C., shufflers; Fla., blackheads, bullheads; raft ducks; Ga., raft ducks; Jil., 
graybacks; Jowa, butterballs; Kans., blackheads; La., black ducks, dos gris, dogs, 
FIG. 15.—Greater Scaup Duck. 
graybacks; Me., widgeon; Man., fall ducks; Md., blackheads, broadbills, flock ducks; 
rait ducks, shufflers; Mass., blackheads, broadbills, widgeon; Mich., blacknecks, 
Miss., black ducks, dos gris, dogs; Nebr., blacknecks; N. B., widgeon; N. H.; 
widgeon; NV. J., blackheads, broadbills, flock ducks; N. Y., blackheads, broadbills; 
N. C., blackheads, broadbills, bullnecks, raft ducks, shufflers; V. S., widgeons; 
R. I., blackheads, broadbills, widgeons; S. C., blackheads, bullnecks, raft ducks, 
S. Dak., blackheads; Ter., blackheads; Va., blackheads, broadbills, flock ducks, 
rait ducks, shufflers; Wash., blackheads, broadbills; Wis., blacknecks. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Flocking fowl, scaups. 
148. Greater Scaup Duck (Fuliz marila®). (Fie. 15.) 
Range.—Northern part of Northern Hemisphere. In North America breeds from the Aleutian Islands, 
northwestern Alaska, Great Slave Lake, and central Keewatin (N. W. T.) south to southern British Col- 
umbia and northern North Dakota; has bred casually on Magdalen Islands and in Ontario and Michigan; 
winters from Maine to Florida and the Bahamas, and from the Aleutian Islands, Nevada, Colorado, 
and Lake Ontario south to southern California, southern New Mexico, and southern Texas; in migra- 
tion rare in central Ungava (Que.), Newfoundland, and Nova Scotia. 
9 Marila marila. 
