12 Miscellaneous Circular 13, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
widgeon (Ark.); bluebill (Mass.); bluebill widgeon (Me., Mass.); California widgeon 
(Mass.); canvasback (B. C.); diamond duck (Sask.); French teal (Que.); gray duck 
(for the female, Mich., Ark., La., Tex.); L-wing (Man.); Norwegian (Utah); poacher, 
a name mentioned in several of the older ornithologies, sometimes spelled poachard 
(Mich.); Southern widgeon (Mass.); specklehead (Pa.); wheatduck (Oreg.); whistler 
(Fla.); whistling-dick, whistling duck (La.); whitebelly (Mass., Conn.): whiteface 
(N. Y., N. C.); zin-zin (z4-z4, nasal, from the bird’s note) (La.). 
Geographic inder.—Ark., baldpate widgeon, gray duck; B. C., canvasback; Conn., 
whitebelly; D. C., baldface; Fla., bald-faced widgeon, whistler; Ga., baldhead; Ti1., 
baldhead; Jowa, bald widgeon; Kans., baldcrown; La., gray duck, whistling-dick, 
whistling duck, zin-zin; Me., bluebill widgeon; Man., L-wing; Md., baldcrown, 
baldface; Mass., bluebill, bluebiil widgeon, California widgeon, southern widgeon, 
whitebelly; Mich., gray duck, poacher; Mo., bald widgeon; N. Y., whiteface; NV. C., 
baldface, whiteface; Oreg., wheatduck; Pa., specklehead; Que., French teal; Sask., 
diamond duck; Tex., gray duck; Utah, Norwegian; Va., baldface; Wis., bald 
widgeon. 
BOOK NAMES. 
American widgeon, canard J’Amérique (American duck), canard siffeur d’Amér- 
ique (American whistler duck), greenhead, green-headed widgeon, pheasant-duck, 
smoking duck, white-bellied poacher. 
FIG. 8.—Green-winged Teal. 
138. European Teal ( Nettion crecca). 
Range—Northern part of Eastern Hemisphere. Occasional in North America; breeds on the Pribilof 
Islands and in the Aleutian Islands; casualin California, Greenland, Labrador, Nova Scotia, Maine, New 
York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Virginia. 
Vernacular names.—None have been applied to the species thus far in America. 
Book names.—English teal, European greenwing, European green-winged teal, 
least green-winged teal, petite sarcelle (little teal). 
139. Green-winged Teal (Nettion carolinense). (Fic. 8.) 
Range—North America. Breeds from the Aleutian Islands, northwestern Alaska, northern Mackenzie 
and central Keewatin (N. W. T.), northern Ungava (Que.), and Newfoundland south to south central 
California, northern New Mexico, northern Nebraska, northern Illinois, southern Ontario, Quebec, and 
New Brunswick; winters from Aleutian Islands, British Columbia, Nevada, southern Nebraska, northern 
Indiana, western New York, and Rhode Island (casually Nova Scotia) south to southern Lower California, 
the West Indies, and Honduras; accidental in Hawaii, Bermuda, Greenland, and Great Britain. 
VERNACULAR NAMES, 
In general use.—Green-winged teal, usually shortened, however, to one of the follow- 
ing forms: Greenwing, teal or common teal, teal duck. 
In local use.-—Butterball (Me.); congo, congotte (also misspelled cognotte, refers to 
small size—Congo slaves were the smallest brought to the New Orleans market) (La.); 
