Skunkhead

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The surf duck.

II. Skunkhead ·noun A duck (Camptolaimus Labradorus) which formerly inhabited the Atlantic coast of New England. It is now supposed to be extinct. Called also Labrador duck, and pied duck.

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skunkhead
The popular name, on the sea-coast, of the Pied Duck of ornithologists.--Nat. Hist. of New York. ...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.