16 Miscellaneous Circular 15, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
143.1. Bahama Duck (Pvecilonetta bahamensis). 
Range.—Bahamas and West Indies, except Cuba, Jamaica, and some of the lesser Antilles, south 
throughout South America to the Falkland Islands, except Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador; has been 
taken at Cape Canaveral, Florida. 
Names.—Also called Bahama pintail; and is known in Porto Rico by the name 
pato criollo (hybrid duck); pato de Florida (Florida duck); pato de la orilla (shore 
duck). 
144. Wood Duck (Aiz sponsa). (Fie. 12.) 
Range.—Temperate North America. Breeds from southern British Columbia, central Saskatchewan, 
northern Ontario, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia south to central California, southern Texas, Florida, 
and Cuba; winters chiefly in United States from southern British Columbia, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, 
Pennsylvania, and New Jersey south to southern California, and the Gulf of Mexico; accidentalin Ber- 
muda, Mexico, Jamaica, and Europe. 
FIG. 12.—Wood Duck. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Summer duck; wood duck, sometimes shortened to wo 
In local use.-—Acorn duck (N. J., Md., 8. C.); black (I1l.); branchier (inhabitant 
of the branches; this name is varied to the less preferable forms brancheur and 
branchu) (La.); canard du bois (wood duck) (La.); canard d’été (summer duck) 
(Que.); gray duck (for the immature) (Mass.); plumer (Tenn.); squealer (Ark., La.); 
swamp duck (La.); tree duck (Md., Mich., Ind.); widgeon, wood widgeon (Conn.). 
Geographic index.—Ark., squealer; Conn., widgeon, wood widgeon; Jil., black; 
Ind., tree duck; La., branchier, canard du bois, squealer, swamp duck; Md., acorn 
duck, tree duck; Mass., gray duck; Mich., tree duck; N. J., acorn duck; Que., canard 
d’été; S. C., acorn duck; Tenn., plumer. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Beau canard huppé (beautiful crested duck), black-billed whistling duck, canard 
huppé (crested duck), braut-ente (bride duck), bridal duck, bride, bride duck, Caro- 
lina duck, Carolina teal, crested wood duck, gray wood duck, king duck, rainbow 
duck, regal duck, whistler, whistling duck. 
