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SOMATERIA MOLLISSIMA. THE COMMON, OR 

 WHITE-BACKED EIDER. 



EIDER DUCK. ST. CUTHBERT'S DUCK. DUNTER GOOSE. 



Anas mollissima. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 338. 



Anas mollissima. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 845. 



Eider Duck. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



Canard Eider. Anas mollissima. Temm. Man. d' Ornith. II. 848. 



Common Eider. Somateria mollissima. Selby, Illustr. II. 338. 



Somateria mollissima. Jen. Brit. Vert. Anim. 237. 



Somateria mollissima. Bonap. Comp. List, 57. 



Male with the frontal angles of the hill venj narrow and, 

 though fleshij, little elevated,- the head black above, with a 

 medial white band; the hind part of the cheeks and nape 

 pale green; the throat, hind-neck, back, scapulars, smaller 

 wing-coverts, and inner secondary quills white; the breast, 

 sides, abdomen, and rump black; the fore-neck cream- 

 coloured; tail of sixteen feathers. Female with the frontal 



