Local Names of Migratory Game Birds. 15 
BOOK NAMES. 
Blue-winged shoveler, Butler duck, canard souchet (block-head duck), canard 
spatule (has the general, if not the exact, meaning of spoon duck), red-breasted shov- 
eler, shoveler duck, souchet (blockhead), swaddle-bill. 
143. Pintail (Dajfila acuta tzitzihoa*). (Fie. 11.) 
Range.—Northern Hemisphere. In North America breeds on the Arctic coast from Alaska to Keewatin 
(N. W. T.) and south to southern California, southern Colorado, southwestern Nebraska, northern Iowa 
and northern Illinois; winters from southern British Columbia, Nevada, Arizona, southern Missouri, 
southern Wisconsin, southern Ohio, Pennsylvania (rarely), and Delaware, south to Porto Rico and 
Panama,andin Hawaii; in migration occasional on the Atlantic coast to northern Ungava (Que.), Green- 
land, and Newfoundland, and in Bermuda. a: 
FIG. 11.—Pintail. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use-—Gray duck, sometimes meaning only the female and immature; 
pintail, sometimes pintail duck, or pinnie; sprig; sprigtail. 
In local use.—Canard gris (gray duck) (Que.); fall duck (Calif.); gray widgeon 
(Conn., Md., Fla.); kite-tailed widgeon (Fla.); longneck (N. J.); neck-twister (N. 
C.); paille-en-queue (straw-tail) (Que., La.); pent-tail (Long Id., N. Y.); pheasant, 
pheasant-duck (Conn.); picket-tail (Conn., Long Id., N. Y., Fla.); pied gray duck 
(Long Id., N. Y.); piketail (111.); pile-start (Long Id., N. Y.); pintail widgeon 
(Mich.); sea widgeon (Conn.); smee, smees, smethe (N. J.); smoker (Man.); spike 
(Nebr.); spike-tail (Ill.); spindletail (Long Id., N. Y.); split-tail (Mass.); sprig- 
tailed widgeon (S. C., Ga.); springtail (La.); sprit-tail (Long Id., N. Y.); Trilby 
duck (Wis.); widgeon (S. C.). 
Geographic index.—Calif., fall duck; Conn., gray widgeon, pheasant; pheasant- 
duck, picket-tail, sea widgeon; Fla., gray widgeon, kite-tailed widgeon, picket-tail; 
Til., piketail, spiketail; La., paille-en-queue; Man., smoker; Mass., split-tail; Md., 
gray widgeon; Mich., pintail widgeon; Nebr., spike; NV. J., longneck, smee, smees, 
smethe; N. Y., pent-tail, picket-tail, pied gray duck, pile-start, spindle-tail; NV. C., 
neck-twister; Que., canard gris, paille-en-queue; S. C., widgeon; Wis., Talby duck. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Canard 4 longue queue (long-tailed duck), canard pilet (specific French vernacular 
for this species), kitetail, longtail, pied widgeon, pigeon-tail, sea-pheasant, sharp- 
tail, water-pheasant, winter duck. 
> Dafila acuta. 
