ORDER ANSERES. 123 



161. Somateria v-nigra GRAY. 



Pacific Eider. 



Somateria v-nigra GRAY, P. Z. S. 1855, 212. 



[B6o 7 , C 5 i 4 , R6 2 8, 735.] 



HAB. Coasts of the North Pacific ; in the interior to the Great 

 Slave Lake district, and in Eastern Siberia. 



SUBGENUS ERIONETTA COUES. 



Erionetta COUES, Key N. A. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 709. Type, Anas 

 spectabilis LINN. 



162. Somateria spectabilis (LINN.). 



King Eider. 



Anas spectabilis LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 123. 



Somateria spectabilis LEACH, in Ross's Voy. Disc. 1819, App. p. xlviii. 



[B6oS, C 515, R 629, C 736.] 



HAB. Northern part of Northern Hemisphere, breeding in the Arc- 

 tic regions ; in North America south casually in winter to New Jersey 

 and the Great Lakes. 



GENUS OIDEMIA FLEMING. 



SUBGENUS OIDEMIA. 



Oidemia FLEMING, Philos. Zool. II. 1822, 260. Type, by elimination, 

 Anas nigra LINN. 



163. Oidemia americana Sw. & RICH. 



American Scoter. 



Oidemia americana Sw. & RICH. Faun. Bor. Amer. II. 1831, 450. 

 [B6o 4 , C 516, R 630, 0737.] 



HAB. Coasts and larger lakes of Northern North America ; breeds 

 in Labrador and the northern interior; south in winter to New Jersey, 

 the Great Lakes, and California. 



SUBGENUS MELANITTA BOIE. 



Melanitta BOIE, Isis, 1822, 564. Type, by elimination, Anas fusca 

 LINN. 



