STELLER'S EIDER. 



471 



over the sides of the neck to each wing ; just below the 

 point of the wing some of the white feathers have black 

 at the tip, forming a dark patch ; middle of breast and 

 belly rich chestnut-brown, passing off into a buff-colour on 

 the front, sides, and flanks ; vent and under tail-coverts 

 dark brown ; legs, toes, and their membranes black ; the 

 hind toe with a deep lobe. Whole length nineteen inches ; 

 from the point of the wing to the end of the longest quill- 

 feather nine inches. 



The female is dark brown, mottled with rufous, especially 

 about the neck and breast ; the greater coverts and the 

 secondaries tipped with white, forming two bars enclosing 

 between them a bluish-black speculum. The figure is taken 

 from Nilsson's coloured plate. 



The Author was indebted to Prof. Newton for the drawing 

 representing two views of a portion of the windpipe of the 

 male, and, in the centre, that of the female ; but the engraver 

 having omitted to reverse the drawings, the representations 

 are in this particular inaccurate. 



