Local Names of Migratory Game Birds. 9 
BOOK NAMES. 
Brewer’s duck (a variation of the species so named by Audubon), canard ordinaire 
common duck), canard sauvage (wild duck), great wild duck. 
An iridescent greenish-black ornamental form of this species is known as the 
big black duck, black Cayuga duck, black East Indian duck, Cayuga black duck, 
East Indian duck, and lake duck. 
A dwarf breed of mallard especially used for decoys is called English, or gray, 
call-duck. 
132.1 New Mexican Duck (Anas diazi novimexicana). 
Range.—Reported to breed in New Mexico; accidental in Nebraska. 
Names.—No others are known. 
133. Black Duck (Anas rubripes). (Fie. 5.) 
Range.—Eastern North America. Breeds from central Keewatin (N. W. T.) and northern Ungava 
(Que.), south to northern Wisconsin, northern Indiana, and Virginia; winters from Nova Scotia south to 
southern Louisiana, Texas, and Colorado; west in migration to Nebraska and central Kansas; casual in 
Bermuda; accidental in Jamaica. ; 
FIG. 5.—Black Duck. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Black duck, black mallard, often shortened to blacks or blackie. 
In local use.—Black English duck (S. C. to Fla.); blackjack (Ky.); blue-winged 
duck (N.S8., N. B.); brown duck (N. J.); brown mallard (Ont.); canard noir (black 
duck) (Que., La.); English duck (Ga.); gibier noir (black fowl) (Que.); mallard en 
marsh duck (Md.); niggerduck (Conn., Long Island, N. Y.); summer duck (Ont.); 
velvet duck (Wis.). 
To these names are to be added names locally applied to the subspecies of the black 
duck, the red-legged black duck (Anas rubripes rubripes), and the brown-legged black 
duck (Anas rubripes tristis). The former is locally known as ledge duck (N.8.); old 
winter duck (Me.); outside duck (N.S.); redleg; red-legged duck; red-paddle (Del.); 
sea duck (R. I.); winter black duck (Mass., N.C.); and the latter as beach duck (N.S.); 
nigger black duck (Del.); pond black duck (R. I.); spring black duck (New England); 
and summer black duck (Mass.). 
Geographic index.—Conn., niggerduck, spring black duck; Del., nigger black duck, 
redleg, red-legged duck, red-paddle; Fla., black English duck; Ga., black English 
duck, English duck; Ky., blackjack; Za., canard noir; Me., old winter duck, spring 
black duck; Md., marsh duck; Mass., spring black duck, summer black duck, winter 
black duck; NV. B., blue-winged duck; N. H., spring black duck; NV. J., brown duck; 
N. Y., niggerduck; NV. C., winter black duck; NV. S., beach duck, blue-winged duck, 
ledge duck, outside duck; Ont., brown mallard, summer duck; Que., canard noir, 
gibier noir; R. J., sea duck, pond black duck, spring black duck; S. C., black English 
duck; Va., mallard; Wis., velvet duck. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Canard noir du nord (northern black duck), dusky duck, dusky mallard, northern 
black mallard, yellow-legged black duck. 
