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Subgenus SOMATERIA Leach. 



Somateria spectabilis (Linnaeus). King Eider. [162.] 



Anas spectabilis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 123. (in Canada, 

 Svecia = Sweden.) 



Range. — -Breeds on both coasts of Greenland and the entire Arctic coast of 

 Canada and Alaska south to Hudson Strait, northern Labrador, northern Hud- 

 son Bay, James Bay, St. Lawrence and St. Matthew islands, and Bering Sea; 

 also on the Arctic coast of Siberia, Novaya Zemlya, and Spitzbergen. Win- 

 ters from southern Greenland to the coasts of Massachusetts and New York, 

 more rarely to Virginia and the Great Lakes and occasionally farther in the 

 interior, and from Bering Sea to the Aleutian, Kodiak, and Shumagin islands; 

 also Iceland, Great Britain, Norway, Holland, and the Baltic Sea. Casual in 

 Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Iowa, and California, and also in 

 France and Italy. 



Genus ARCTONETTA Gray. 



Ardotietla G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., XXIII, 1855, No. 297 

 [Feb. 5, 1856], 212. Type, by monotypy, Fuligula fischeri Brandt. 



Arctonetta fischeri (Brandt). Spectacled Eider. [158.] 



Fuligula Fischeri Brandt, Fuligulam Fischeri Novam Avium Speciem, 

 1847, 10, 14 (1 pi.). (St. Michael, Alaska.) 



Range. — Breeds on the Arctic coasts of Siberia and Alaska from the mouth 

 of the Lena River to Point Barrow (occasionally to Colville River), south on 

 the Bering Sea coast of Alaska to the mouth of the Kuskokwim River. Winters 

 in the vicinity of the Aleutian and Pribilof islands, and rarely eastward along 

 the south side of the Alaska Peninsula to Sanak Island. 



Genus MELANITTA Boie. 



Melaniita Boie, Isis von Oken, [X] 1822, Heft V (May), col. 564. Type, 

 by subs, desig., Anas fusca Linnaeus (Eyton, 1838). 



Subgenus MELANITTA Boie. 



• Melanitta fusca (Linnaeus). Velvet Scoter. [164.] 



Anas fusca Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 123. (in Oceano 

 Europaeo = Swedish coast.) 



Range. — Breeds from Norway to Novaya Zemlya and northeastern Siberia. 

 Winters in temperate Europe and Asia south to Spain, Morocco, Egypt, 

 Persia, and Turkestan. Accidental in Greenland (west coast) ^ and the Faroe 

 Islands. 



1 Reinhardt, and Schi0ler, cf. Phillips, Nat. Hist. Ducks, IV, 1926, 33. 



