spirit duck

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the buffllehead, Bucephala albeola.

See: conjuring duck(def. 1)

Quotations

1785

Spirit Duck . . . Inhabits North America, from Hudson's Bay to Carolina.

1862

Among other I noticed the eggs and parent birds of the . . . spirit duck. . . .

1956

Bufflehead [is also called] . . . spirit duck.