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Box Coot

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Butterboat-bill Coot
Hollow-billed Coot
Speckle-billed Coot
Blossom-billed Coot

Horsehead Coot
Patch-Head
Patch-head Coot
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White-head
White Scop
Bald-pate
Skunk-head
Skunk-head Coot
Skunk-top

Pictured Bill
Plaster-bill
Morocco-jaw

Goggle-nose

Surf-taker

In honour of the fact you can now pre-order Gay Dwarves of America on Amazon and Krisostomus (“Every Book in the World;” also a good source for Estonian e-books), I’m resurrecting my blog with

Other Names for Birds

from Birds of America, T. Gilbert Pearson, ed., Garden City Books, 1936.

1. White-winged Scoter.

Other names:

Velvet Scoter; Velvet Duck; Lake Huron Scoter; White-winged Surf Duck, or Sea Coot or Scoter; Black White-wing; Black Surf Duck; Pied-wing Coot; Uncle Sam Coot; Bell-tongue Coot; Bull Coot; Brant Coot; Sea Brant; May White-wing; Eastern White-wing; Assemblyman.