For those persons interested in bird names from folk to official and all
those categories in between.

In Terres (1991) *The Audubon Society' Encyclopedia of North American
Birds*is a list of names for
*Clangula hyemalis*:

Calloo; cockawee; coween; hound; John Connolly; long-tail; long-tailed duck;
old Billy; old granny; old injun; old molly; old wife; quandy; scoldenore;
scolder, south-southerly,
squeaking duck, swallow-tailed duck, uncle Huldy and last but not least (and
most politically correct and habit descriptive) winter duck.

The latter name reflects its scientific name i.e. *Clangula* as a small
noise derieved from the Latin *clangor* or the crying screaming, clamor or
noise and the epiphet *hyemalis* which means winter in Latin.

Roger Troutman/Mansfield

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