6 Miscellaneous Circular 13, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture: 
VERNACULAR NAMES: 
In genera. use.—N one other than those mentioned in the section on collective names 
of mergansers. re Bat 
In local use-—Bec-scie de mer (sea sawbill) (La.); common sawbill, common shel- 
drake (R. I.); fuzzyhead (Fla.); garbill (Ill.); garbill duck (La.); hairycrown, hairy- 
crowned fisherman (Md.); hairyhead (N. C., Fla.); Indian sheldrake (N.Y.); jack (Ky.); 
Long Island sheldrake (Conn.); Mississippi buck (Ill.); pheasant (Md.); pheasant 
sheldrake (Mass.); pied sheldrake (N. Y.); pond sheldrake (Nova Scotia); red-breasted 
fish-duck ae robin (Mass.); salt-water sheldrake (N. J.); sea bec-scie (Ala.); sea 
diver (La.); sea sawbill (Ala., La.); sea-robin, shell-bird (Mass.); shelduck (Conn., 
N.J., Va.); Spanish drake (La.); spring-buck (Ill.); spring sheldrake (Me.); stud-duck 
(Tenn.); whistler (N. Y.). 
Geographic index.—Ala., sea bec-scie; Alaska, diver; Conn., Long Island sheldrake, 
shelduck; Fla., fuzzyhead, hairyhead; J/l., garbill, Mississippi buck, spring-buck; 
Ky., jack; La., bec-scie de mer, garbill duck, sea bec-scie, sea diver, sea sawbill, 
Spanish drake; Me., spring sheldrake; Md., hairy-crown, hairy-crowned fisherman, 
pheasant; Mass., pheasant sheldrake, robin, sea-robin, shell-bird; N. J/., salt-water 
Fic. 3.—Hooded Merganser. 
sheldrake, shelduck; N. Y., Indian sheldrake, pied sheldrake, whistler; N. C., 
hairyhead; NV. S., pond sheldrake; R. J., common sawbill, common sheldrake; Tenn., 
stud-duck; Tex., red-breasted fish-duck; Va., shelduck. 
BOOK NAMES. 
Harle 4 poitrine rousse (red-breasted merganser), harle huppé (crested merganser), 
merganser, red-bellied sheldrake, red-breasted goosander, red-breasted sheldrake. 
131. Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus.) (Fia. 3.) 
Range.—North America. Breeds from central British Columbia, Great Slave Lake, central Keewatin 
(N. W. T.), central Ungava (Que.), and Newfoundland south to southern Oregon, northern New Mexico, 
southern Louisiana, and central Florida; winters from southern British Columbia, Utah, Colorado, Ne- 
braska, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts south to Lower California, Mexico, the Gulf 
ae. and gape: rare in northeastern part ofrange; recorded from St. Michael, Alaska, and from Europe 
and Bermuda. 
