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also tinged with greenish ; but the " spectacles " are pure silvery wliite, framed in black. Bill, 

 in dried state, dingy yellowish; feet the same, with dusky webs. Smaller than the common 

 Eider: Length 20.00-22.50; extent 34.00-36.50 ; wing 11.00; tail 4.00 ; tarsus 1.75; middle 

 toe and claw 2.75 ; bill witli only about an inch of bare culmen, but about 2.25 along gape. 

 9: Greatly different in color, as are all Eiders, but little smaller than $. Bill black in dried 

 state with whitish uail of under mandible, in life dull bluish; feet dingy yellowish-brown, 

 drying dark. General j)lumage like that of the common Eider, barred almost throughout 

 with black, chestnut-brown, and yellowish-brown, giving way ou belly to dull brownish 

 nebulated with dusky ; on head to pale brown streaked or otherwise obscured with dusky ; 

 axillars white. Coast of Alaska from Unalashka and some other islands of the Aleutian chain 

 N. to Point Barrow on the Arctic coast; confined to the salt marshes, and very locally dis- 

 tributed ; common in some localities, nearly coincident with those occupied by the Emperor 





J;Wol<j. 



Via. 050. — Spectacled Eider. (From " Wild Fowl of North America," by D. G. Elliot.) 



Goose: breeds from tlic Kuskoipiim montli to Point Barrow, but especially about St. Michael's 

 and the Yukon delta, where it arrives about the midille of May; eggs in June and July, 5 

 to 8 or 9, 2.()0-2.80 X 1.80-1.00, light olive drab; ne.'^t on ground in tlie grass; young tiy 

 in August, and during that month the drakes moult into a plumage somewhat resemblinu; tliat 

 of the dui-ks. See Nelson's Alaska, 1887, j)p. 7(i-78 for biography and colored pi. 5, fig. I. 

 SOMATK'KIA, (C;r. a-u>na, (Toifiaros, soma, somatos, the body ; (piov^ eriu)i, wool, down.) 

 I'.iDKUs. Bill variously tumid or iiibbous, with different dispositions of frontal jirocesses and 

 niitlincs nf feathers, in the several species (as in Scoters ((Edeiuia); in botli of these genera 

 tlic particulars of the bill being specific and in a measure sexual characters, to found genera 

 u])on tbem would l)e to make one for almost every species). Nostrils averaging median, 

 variable in position ; featliers reaching under or not to them. Frontal angles of bill variously 

 exaggeratetl. Nail of bill large, fused, forming whole tip. Inner .«!ecoMdaiies and scapulars 

 sickle-shaped, curved outward and falling oblii[uely over wing. Sexes very unlike. (J chiefly 



