I 



54. SOMATERIA. 431 



(1862) ; Elliot, lllustr. Am. B. pi. 48. (pts. xiv., xv., 1869) ; Ball 

 ^ Barin. Tr. Chic. Acad. i. p. 300 (1869); Coues, Key, p. 293 

 (1872) ; id. C/ieck-list, n. 514 (1873) ; id. B. N.-West, p. 581 

 (1874) ; Dall, Avif. Aleut. Isl. Unal. westw. p. 7 (1874) ; Jtidf/w. 

 Norn. N. Am. B. n. 628 (1881) ; Coves, Check-list, 2nd ed. p. 116, 

 n. 735 (1882) ; Bean, Pr. U.S. Nat. M?is. 1882, p. 167 ; ?Stearns, 

 Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. 1883, p. 121 (Labrador) ; Nelson, Cruise 

 'Corimi,' p. 101 (1883); Saund. YarreWs Hist. Brit. B. iv. p. 459 

 (1884-85) ; Seeb. Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. 617 (1885) ; Tnriier, Auk, 

 1885, p. 158 ; Stejn. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, p. 173, pi. vii. 

 f. 3 (head, Copper Island) (1885) ; Murdoch, Exped. to Point 

 Barrow, Alaska, -p. 119 (1885) ; Matscliieu. Ziemer, J. f. O. 1885, 

 p. 192 ; A.O. U. Check-list N. Am. B. p. 123, n. 161 (1886) ; 

 Turner, Contr. N. H. of Alaska, p. 136 (1886) ; Nelsmi, Nat. 

 Hist. Cull, in Alaska, p. 78, pi. v. f. 2 (head) (1887) ; Ridf/iv. Man. 

 N. Am. B. p. 110 (1887) ; Stejn. Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. x. p. 137 

 (1887) (Copper Isl. and Bering Isl.); Macfarl. Pr. U.S. Nat. 

 Mus. xiv. p. 422 (Franklin Bay) (1891); ?Snoiv, Auk, 1892, 

 p. 198 (Kansas !) ; Allen, Auk, 1893, p. 123. 



Somateria v-nigrum, Bp. Compt. Bend, xliii. p. 650, n. 124 (1856) ; 

 Selys, Bull. Ac. Roy. Bru.r. xxiii. 2, p. 16 (1856) ; Blakist. Ibis, 

 1863, p. 150 ; G. R. Gr. Ha7id-list, iii. p. 88, n. 10707 (1871) ; 

 Adams, Ibis, 1878, p. 434 (Michalaski) ; Salv. ^- Sclat. Ibis, 1881, 

 p. 491 ; Rchnw. Orn. Centralbl. 1882, p. 18 ; Saund. Ibis, 1883, 

 p. 347; Stejn. Naturen, 1884, p. 51; B., B.,^-R. Water-B. N. 

 Am. ii. p. 80 (1884) ; Coues, Key N. Am. B. 2nd ed. p. 712, 

 n. 735 (1884) ; Edd. Ibis, 1886, p. 202 (note). 



Somateria mollissima, Tacz. [nee Linn.) Orn. Faun. Vost. Sibir. p. 71 

 (1877) ; id. Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. ii. p. 48 (1877). 



Similar in plumage to S. mollissima and S. dresseri, but the 

 adult male has a V-shaped mark of black on throat, like the male of 

 S. spectabilis ; besides, the male has the black of head bordered 

 beneath by pale green for nearly its entire length, like S. dresseri : 

 bill of adult male bright orange or orange-red in life, with paler 

 tip. Wing 11-75-12-70 inches, culmen 1-80-2-20, length of bill to 

 point of basal angle 2-50-3-10, tarsus 2-00-2-30, 



The adidt female is very similar to that of the allied species, but 

 it is somewhat larger ; wing ll-50-12'50. 



YouTUj in down. Very similar to the same stage of S. mollissima, 

 but apparently paler brown, and with the feathered portion of the 

 culmen narrower and more pointed. 



Hah. North-western America, east to Great Slave Lake ; north- 

 eastern Asia. 



a, b. c? ad. sk. No locality. Old Coll. 



c, d, c. (S 2 ad. Kussian America (Adams). Voy. of H. M.S. 'En- 



st.etcJ inmi.sk. terprise.' 



(Types of the species.) 

 Voy. of H.M.S. 'En- 



f, g. Pull. St. Russian America (Adams). 



terprise.' 



h. (S ad. sk. Kotzebue Sound. Capt. Kellett&Lieut. 



Wood [P.]. 

 (Co-type of the species.) 



