122 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B 598, C 5 n, R 625, C 73 I.] 

 HAB. Arctic and subarctic coasts of the Northern Hemisphere. 



GENUS ARCTONETTA GRAY. 

 Arctonctta GRAY, P. Z. S. 1855, 12. Type, Fuligula fischeri BRANDT. 



158. Arctonetta fischeri (BRANDT). 



Spectacled Eider. 



Fuligula fischeri BRANDT, Me"m. Acad. St. Petersb. VI. 1849, 6, 10. 

 Arctonetta fischeri BLAKISTON, Ibis, 1863, 150. 



[B 599, C 512, R 626, C 732.] 

 HAB. Coast of Alaska, north to Point Barrow. 



GENUS SOMATERIA LEACH. 

 SUUGENUS SOMATERIA. 



Somatcria LEACH, in Ross's Voy. Disc. 1819, App. p. xlviii. Type, 

 Anas mollissima LINN. 



159. Somateria mollissima (LINN.). 



Eider. 



Anas mollissima LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 124. 

 Somateria mollissima BOIE, Isis, 1822. 564. 



[B 606, part, C 5i3,/rtr/, R 627, C 733.] 



HAB. Northern Europe and Northeastern North America, includ- 

 ing Greenland and Northern Labrador ; south in winter on the Atlan- 

 tic coast to Maine. 



160. Somateria dresseri SHARPE. 



American Eider. 



Somatcria dresseri SHARPE, Ann. Mag. Nat Hist. July, 1871, 51. 

 [B 606, part, C $iz,part, R 627 a, C 734.] 



HAB. Atlantic coast of North America, from Maine to Labrador; 

 south in winter to the Delaware. 



