SOMATEIUA. 



-EKIONKXTA. 



Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm Coll. 



191 



■2. Farn Islands, l:>th June (//. 



Saunders). 

 2. Farn Islands, 14th June {H. See- 



bohiti). 



2. Coquet Island, 6th June (O. Scildn). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 1. Stavauger, Norway. Seebohm Coll. 



1. Norway, '20th June. Seebohm Coll. 



5. Skaarholmen, Sinolen Islands, 28tli Dr. R. Bowdler Sharps [P.]. 



May. 



0. Triktiln Island, Smolen Islands. Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe [P.]. 



26th May. 

 4. Tromso, Norway, 11th June (//. Seebohm Coll. 

 Seebohm). 



1. Sweden. S. 0. Sahlin, Esq. [P.]. 



Somateria v-nigra {Gray). 



Somateria v-nigrum, Baird, Breirer Sj' Ridgio. Water Birds N. Am. ii. 



p. 80 (1884) ; Salmdori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvli. p. 430 (1895). 

 Somateria v-nigra, Nehon, Report Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 78 (1887) ; Mac- 



Farlane, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mas. xiv. p. 422 ( 1892) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. 



i. p. 226 (1899) ; Nehrk. Kat. Eiersamml. p. 247 (1899). 



The eggs of the Pacific Eider Duck resemble tliose ot' >S. mol- 

 lissima. They measure from 2'9 to 3-2 in length, and from I'i* to 

 2-05 in breadth. 



4. St. Michael's, Alaska, 10th June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(JE;. W.Nelson: Henshaw OdL). 

 ■2. St. Michael's, 17th June {E. W. N.: Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Henshaw Coll.). 

 '2. Anderson River. Arctic America, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



6th Julv(V?. MacFarlaiie : Smiths. 



Inst.). ' 

 1. .\nderson River, 6th July (-R.. If aci^..- Crowlej' Bequest. 



Tristram Coll.). 

 4. Island in Franklin Bay, Arctic Seebohm Coll. 



America (R. MacF.). 



Genus ERIONETTA., Coues. 



Erionetta spectabilis (Linn.). 



.Vnas spectabilis, Thien. Fortpflanz. qes. Miij. tab. lx.x;viii. fig. 2, a-c 

 (1840-54). 



Somateria spectabilis, Baedeker, Eier Eur. T'off. tab. 8. fig. 2 (1855-63) ; 

 Hewit.ion, Egr/s of Brit. Birds, ii. p. 417, pi. cxv. figs, i, ii (1856) ; 

 Feilden,Ibis, 1877, p. 412 ; id. in Nares's Narr. Voy. Polar Sea, ii. p. 216 

 (1878); Dresser, Birds Eur. vi. p. (>43 (1877); Baird, Brewer ^■ 

 Ridffw. Water Birds N. Am. ii. p. 83 (1884) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, 

 iii. "p. 621, pi. 59 (1885) ; MavFarlane, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mils. xiv. 

 p. 422 (1891); Salmdori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. p. 432 (1895); 

 Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 54, pi. 9. fig. 1 (1896). 



Erionetta spectabilis, Sharpe. Hand-l. i. p. 226 (1899). 



The eggs of the King-Eider are smaller than those of -S. mollissima. 



