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VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—None besides those mentioned in the section on collective names 
of mergansers: 
In local use.—Big fish-duck (Minn.); big pond-sheldrake (Mass.); big sawbill (Minn., 
Man.); big sheldrake, bracket, bracket sheldrake (Conn.); breakhorn (Mass.); Canadian 
canvasback (Mich.); dun-diver (Long Id., N. Y.); fresh-water sheldrake (Mass., 
N. J.); gony (N. Y.); goosander (Que., Me., Mass., N. Y., R. I., Va., B. C., Calif.) 
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great lake-sheldrake (Me.); harle (Que.); Irish canvasback (Delaware Valley); 
morocco-head (N. J.); North Carolina sheldrake (N. J.); pheasant (Me.); pied fisher- 
man (Md.); pond sheldrake (Me., Mass.); river sheldrake (N. J.); sawbuck (III.); 
shelduck (Va.); swamp sheldrake (Mass., Long Id., N. Y.); spike (N. Y.); stud (Tenn.); 
tweezer (Long Id., N. Y.); velvet-breast (Conn.); weaser, weaser sheldrake, wheezer 
(Long Id., N. Y.); winter sheldrake (Me., N. H.); wood duck (Colo.); woozer (this 
NY} tweezer, and the variations of weaser, are forms of the same name) (Long Id., 
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Geographic index.—B. C., goosander; Calif., goosander; Colo., wood duck; Conn., 
big sheldrake, bracket, bracket sheldrake, velvet-breast; Del., Irish canvasback; 
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FIG. 2.—Red-breasted Merganser. 
Iil., sawbuck; WMe., goosander, great lake-sheldrake, pheasant, pond-sheldrake, 
winter sheldrake; Man., big sawbill; Md., pied fisherman; Mass., big pond-sheldrake, 
breakhorn, fresh-water sheldrake, goosander, pond sheldrake, swamp sheldrake; 
Mich., Canadian canvasback; Minn., big fish-duck, big sawbill; NV. H., winter shel- 
drake; N. J., fresh-water sheldrake, Irish canvasback, morocco-head, North Carolina 
sheldrake, river sheldrake; N. Y., diver, dun-diver, gony, goosander, swamp shel- 
drake, spike, tweezer, weaser, weaser sheldrake, wheezer, woozer; Pa., Irish canvas- 
back; Que., goosander, harle; R. I., goosander; Tenn., stud; Va., goosander, shelduck. 
BOOK NAMES. 
American goosander, American sheldrake, buff-breasted merganser, buff-breasted 
sheldrake, cream-colored sheldrake, great fishing-duck, greater merganser, harle 
d’Amérique (American merganser), North American merganser, rose-breasted 
goosander, salmon-breasted merganser, sparling fowl, avater pheasant. 
130. Red-breasted Merganser ( Mergus serrator). (Fie. 2.) 
Range—Northern part of Northern Hemisphere. Breedsin North America from Arctic coast of Alaska, 
northern Mackenzie (N. W. T.), Cumberland Sound, and Greenland (lat. 73°) south to southern British 
Columbia, southern Alberta, southern Minnesota, central Wisconsin, northern New York, southern Maine, 
and Sable Island; winters in southern Greenland, the Commander Islands, and from southern British 
Columbia, Utah, Colorado, southern Wisconsin, southern Ontario, and Maine south to southern Lower 
California, Louisiana, and Florida; casual in Bermuda, Cuba, and Hawaii. 
