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Adxilt male. On the orbital region a satiny white pad, bordered 

 by a velvety black edge, broader anteriorly and posteriorly than 

 above, wanting below ; lores and forehead covered by stiffened 

 feathers, white anteriorly, shading into olive-green, and this into 

 light greenish buff ; crown and occiput covered by a cowl or hood of 

 pendent, stiffened, hair-like feathers of a light olive-green colour ; 

 a broad stripe of darker green beneath the eye ; throat, neck, back, 

 smaller upper wing-coverts, scapulars, and falcated tertials white ; 

 lower back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and lower parts dark smoky 

 grey ; a patch on each side of rump white ; greater wing-coverts and 

 quills brown, edge of the wing and under wing-coverts pale brown ; 

 tail brown : " iris bright milky white ; feet and legs dull olive- 

 brown, except the scales in front of tarsus, which are dingj' 

 yellowish ; bill dull orange " {Nelson). Total length about 21*5 

 inches, wing 10, tail 3, culmen 1, tarsus 1*7. 



Adult female. Above barred with fulvous and black ; lower parts 

 similar, the abdomen, however, plain greyish brown ; head and 

 neck light greyish buff, finely streaked with dusky, the throat, how- 

 ever, nearly immaculate ; there is a slight indication of the pad 

 round the eyes, and the feathers of the lores and forehead have 

 quite a velvety texture ; quills and greater coverts brown, the latter 

 like the secondaries tipped with whitish : " bill dull blue ; feet and 

 tarsi dull yellowish brown " (Nelson). 



Toung. Similar to the female : " bill dark olive-brown ; legs and 

 feet dull yellowish, shaded with olive-brown " (Nelson). 



Young in down. Brown, paler and more greyish brown below ; 

 there is already indicated the peculiar ring round the eyes. 



Hab. Coast of Alaska, from Norton Sound to Point Barrow. 



a. (S ad. St. Northern Sound, N.W. Voy. of II.M.S. ' Enterprise. 



America (Ada7ns). (Specimen figured bv Gray 



P. Z. S. 1855, pi. 108.) 



b. 2 ad. St. Northern Sound, N.W. Vov. of H.M.S. ' Entei-prise. 



America (Adams). (Tvpe of female's descrip. 



Grav, P.Z.S. 1855,p.212 

 pi. 108.) 

 c-o.S $ad.,juv., St.Michaers,Alaska,June- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



et pull. sk. Sept. (E. W. Nelson). 



p. 2 ad- sk. Andretf^kv, .\laska, June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(K IV.' Nelson). 

 q. 5 juv. sk. Stewart's Island. Alaska, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sept. (E. W. Nelson). 



54. SOMATERIA. ^ 



Type. 



Somateria, Leach in Moss's Vwj. Discov., .\ppend. 



p. xlviii (1819) S. mollissima. 



Ganza, Merrein, in Ersch u. Gruier's Encycl. iii. p. 471 



(1819) (e.r Plin. Hist nat. Libr. 10, Cap. 23) S. mollissima. 



Platypus, Brehm, Lchrh. Nat. eur. ii. Vog. p. 805 (1824) 



( = Somateria, part.). 

 Gauza, " Mer/-e??i '' (errore), G. M. Gi: Hand-list, iii. 



p. 88 (1871). 



