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spirit duck

• the buffllehead, Bucephala albeola.

  See also: conjuring duck (def. 1)  

  • 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.