Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast

by Harry Thom Payne

Color—The accompanying illustration is the best description of this duck that can be given, as the colors are white and a brownish black. It is about the size of the widgeon.

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WHITE-WINGED SCOTER (Oidemia deglandi)

THE SCOTERS

(Oidemia deglandi—Oidemia americana)

The scoters, or coots, as they are called on the Atlantic coast, are all found on this coast southward to Mexico. Of these the white-winged scoter (Oidemia deglandi) is the most common, being found in large numbers on all the bays and inlets of the coast as far south as the Magdalena bay, Lower California.

Order, ANSERES
Family, ANATIDAE Subfamily, FULIGULINAE.
(Bay and sea ducks)

Genus		Species		Common Names		Range and Breeding Grounds
Aythya		vallisneria		Canvasback		From Northern Mexico north. Breeds on the higher lakes from Eastern Oregon to the Arctic.
		americana		Red-head		From Central Mexico north. Breeds on the interior lakes from Eastern Oregon north.
		neartica		American scaup Blue-bill Black-jack		From Central California north. Breeds on the interior lakes from Washington north.
		affinis		Lesser scaup Blue-bill Black-jack		From northern Mexico north. Breeds on the interior lakes from Washington north to the Arctic.
		collaris		Ring-neck Black-jack		From Central California north. More common on fresh waters. Breeds on the interior lakes from Oregon to the Arctic.
Glaucionetta		americana		American golden-eye		Rare south of Oregon. Breeds from northern Washington north.
		islandica		Barrows golden-eye		Very rare south of Puget Sound. Found only along the coast. Breed on the Aleutian Islands and Alaska north.
Charitonetta		albeola		Buffle-head Butter-ball		From Central Mexican coast north. Breeds along the coast from Washington north.
Erismatura		rubida		Ruddy duck Wire-tail		From Central Mexico north. Breeds on the mountain lakes throughout its range.
Oidemia		americana		Americas scoter Black coot		From the Lower California coast north. Breeds on the Aleutian Islands and the Alaska coast.
		deglandi		White-winged scoter White-winged coot		From the Lower California coast north. Breeds on the Aleutian Islands and the Alaska coast.