Local Names of Migratory Game Birds. 7 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—None besides those mentioned in the section on collective names of 
mergansers. 
In local use——Bastard teal (Wash.); bec-scie de cypriére (cypress sawbill) (La.); 
bec-scie du lac (lake sawbill) (La.); California fish-duck (Kans.); cock-robin, cock- 
robin duck (N. J.); cottonhead, crow-duck, didapper (La.); frog-duck (Ga.); fuzzy- 
head (Fla.); hairycrown (Mass., Md., N. C., Miss., La.); hairyhead (Mass. to Fla., Ky.; 
most common name in Middle Atlantic States); hairy-crowned teal (N. C.); hell-diver 
(Me., Wis., La.); hooder (Man.); hootamaganzy (Ohio); little fish-duck (N. Y., Mich., 
Ill., Minn., Man., B. C., Wash.); little sheldrake (Me., Sask.); little spikebill (N. Y.); 
morning-glory (Mich.); mosshead (S. C.); mud sheldrake (Mass.); oyster duck (Calif.); 
peaked-bill (S. C.); petit harle (little merganser) (Que.); pheasant, pheasant duck 
(N.C.); pickaxe, pickaxe sheldrake (Me.); pied sheldrake (N. H., Long Id., N. Y.); 
plongeon (diver) (La.); pond fisher (Pa.); pond sawbill (N. J.); pond sheldrake (Me., 
Long Id., N. Y.); rocket (Fla.); sawbill diver (New England); sheldrake (Nova Scotia 
to Long Id., N. Y.);smew (the name of the smallest European sheldrake, see No. 131.1) 
(R. I.); shagpoll (Ga.); sharpy (Man.); snowl (Md.); spike (Mich.); spikebill (N. Y., 
Del., Mich., Tex., Ariz., Sask., Wash.); spiky (N. Y.); strawbill (Ark., La.); summer 
duck (Ala.); summer sheldrake (Conn.); swamp sheldrake (Mass., Long Id., N. Y.); 
tadpole (Fla.); topknot (Mich.); tree-duck (Ind., Ill.); tuffle-headed duck (Mich.); 
water-pheasant (N.Y. to 8. C.); whistler (N.Y., Tenn.); wirecrown (Mass.); wood duck 
(Ind., Ill., Mont., Oreg.); wood sawbill (Ga.); wood sheldrake (Conn., Long Id., N. Y.); 
zin-zin (a name of the baldpate imitative of one of its notes, applied to the present 
pee probably by partial confusion between these two unusually colored ducks) 
La.). 
Geographic index.—Ala., summer duck; Ariz., spikebill; Ark., strawbill; B. C., little 
fish-duck; Calif., oyster duck; Conn., sawbill diver, sheldrake, summer sheldrake, 
wood sheldrake; Del., hairyhead, spikebill, water-pheasant; Fla., fuzzyhead, hairy- 
head, rocket, tadpole; Ga., frog duck, hairyhead, shagpoll, wood sawbill; J//., little 
fish-duck, tree-duck, wood-duck; Ind., tree-duck, wood-duck; Kans., California fish- 
duck; Ky., hairyhead; Za., bec-scie de cypriére, bec-scie du lac, cottonhead, crow- 
duck, didapper, diver, hairycrown, hell-diver, plongeon, strawbill, zin-zin; Me., hell- 
diver, little sheldrake, pickaxe, pickaxe sheldrake, pond sheldrake, sawbill diver, 
sheldrake; Man., hooder, little fish-duck, sharpy; Md., hairycrown, hairyhead, snowl, 
water-pheasant; Mass., hairycrown, hairyhead,mud sheldrake, sawbill diver, sheldrake, 
swamp sheldrake, wirecrown; Mich., little fish-duck, morning-glory, spike, spikebill, 
topknot, tuffle-headed duck; Minn., little fish-duck; Miss., hairycrown; Mont., wood- 
duck; NV. B., sheldrake; N. H., pied sheldrake, sawbill diver; N. J., cock-robin, cock- 
robin duck, hairyhead, pond sawbill, water-pheasant; N. Y., hairyhead, little fish- 
duck, little spikebill, pied sheldrake, pond sheldrake, sheldrake, spikebill, spiky, 
swamp sheldrake, water-pheasant, whistler, wood sheldrake; N. C., hairycrown, 
hairyhead, hairy-crowned teal, pheasant, pheasant duck, water-pheasant; NV. S., 
sheldrake; Ohio, hootamaganzy; Oreg., wood-duck; Pa., pond fisher; Que., petit harle; 
R. I., sawbill diver, sheldrake, smew; Sask., little sheldrake, spikebill; S. C., hairy- 
head, mosshead, peaked-bill, water-pheasant; Tenn., whistler; Tex., spikebill; Va., 
hairyhead, water-pheasant; Wash., bastard teal, little fish-duck, sawbill, spikebill; 
Wis., helldiver. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Creek sheldrake, fancrest, fan-crested duck, harle couronné (crowned sheldrake), 
hooded fish-duck, hooded sheldrake, little merganser, marsh merganser, merganser, 
round-crested duck, towhead. 
131.1 Smew ( Mergellus albellus). 
Range.—Northern part of Old World. Breeds in northern Europe and Asia; occurs in migration 
east to Commander Islands; winters south to Japan, China, northern India, and coasts of the Mediterra- 
nean; accidentalin northern North America. 
Names.—This species has occurred in America so few times that no vernacular 
name has been applied. The principal English names by which it is known abroad 
are lough diver, magpie diver, nun, smee or smee duck, smew, weasel-coot, weasel- 
duck, white merganser, white nun, white wigeon, and white-headed goosander; and 
French names, the following: Harle piette (pied merganser), petit harle huppé (little 
crested merganser), piette (pied, with a diminutive sense). 
