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 ANSERES. 



AN ATI D^. 



A iV^ TJJJ.^. 



SOMATEEIA STELLERI (PallaS*). 



STELLER'S EIDER. 



Soma teria disjM r. 



Steller's Eider, often called Steller's Western Duck, is 

 an inhabitant of the Arctic regions, which occasionally 

 straggles to the temperate portions of Europe in winter, 

 and has twice occurred in England. The first example 

 w^as shot on the 10th of February, 1830, at Caistor, in 

 Norfolk, and was soon afterwards presented to the Norwich 

 Museum by the Rev. George Stewart, as stated by the 

 Messrs. Paget, in their Sketch of the Natural History of 

 Yarmouth and its neighbourhood. By the kindness of Mr. 

 Charles Buckler, who furnished a drawing taken by himself 

 from the bird at Norwich, the Author was enabled to give 

 an exact representation of that Britisli-killcd specimen. It 

 is a male closely approaching the adult plumage. 



* Anas stcUcri, Pallas, Spicilegia Zuologica, fasc. vi. p. 35, tav. v. (1769). 



