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east to the Kenai Peninsula and west to the Commander and Kurile islands; a 

 few also winter in Scandinavia, Denmark, and on the Baltic Sea. Accidental in 

 Greenland, Quebec, England, France, Germany, and Japan. 



Genus SOMATERIA Leach. 



Somateria Leach, in Ross, Voyage Discovery, 1819, App., xlviii. Type, 

 by monotypy. Anas spedabilis Linnaeus. 



Subgenus EIDER Jarocki. 



Eider Jarocki, Spis Ptakow Gab. zool. krol. Warsz. Urnivers., 1819, 62. 

 Type, by monotypy. Anas mollissimi Gmelin = A. mollissima Lin- 

 naeus. 



Somateria mollissima borealis (Brehm). Northern Eider. [159.] 



Platypus borealis C. L. Brehm, Lehrbuch Eur. Vogel, II, 1824, 813. (auf 

 dem Kiisten und auf dem Inseln der Bafiinsbai und Davis Strasse be- 

 sonders an der West Kiisten von Gronland = Greenland.) 



Range. — Breeds on the coastal islands of Greenland and eastern Arctic 

 islands, south on the Atlantic coast to Labrador (Hamilton Inlet) and Quebec. 

 Winters from southern Greenland to the coast of Maine, rarely to Massa- 

 chusetts and Connecticut. 



Somateria mollissima dresseri Sharpe. American Eider. [160.] 



Somateria Dresseri Sharpe, Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, VIII, No. 43, 

 July, 1871, 52. (North America.) 



Range. — Breeds on coastal islands of Labrador south of Hamilton Inlet, 

 Newfoundland, eastern Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Maine; also on Hudson Bay 

 and James Bay, as far north as Southampton Island and Cape Fullerton. 

 Winters on the sea coast from Newfoundland and the Gulf of St. Lawrence to 

 Massachusetts and rarely to Virginia. Reported in Wisconsin, Iowa, and 

 Colorado but these records quite likely belong to S. spedabilis. 



[A closely allied race, S. m. mollissima (Linnaeus), occurs in northern 

 Europe.] 



Somateria v-nigra Gray. Pacific Eider. [161.] 



Somateria V-nigra G. R. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., XXIII, 1855, No. 

 297 [Feb. 5, 1856], 212 (pi. cvii). (Kotzebue Sound [Alaska].) 



Range. — -Breeds on the Siberian and Alaskan coasts from Cape Irkaipi to 

 Coronation Gulf, south on both coasts of Bering Sea to the Commander and 

 Aleutian islands, and east along the south side of the Alaska Peninsula to 

 Kodiak Island and Cook Inlet; also north to Banks and Victoria Islands. 

 Winters mainly in the vicinity of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska Peninsula, 

 moving but little south of its breeding range. Casual on the coast of Washing- 

 ton and also in Manitoba. 



