P.N.E.Z.C. 



28 BIRDS AND MAMMALS OF EAST SIBERIA [ 'vol.'v 



Somateria spectabilis (Linn.). 



Two specimens were collected. The king eider was observed 

 at various places along the coast. On June 26 a nest was found 

 in a tuft of grass, ten feet from the edge of a small lake in one of 

 the islands in the Delta of the Kolyma. It contained the broken 

 shells of two fresh eggs, evidently destroyed by a pair of glaucous 

 gulls that were nesting near by. The pair of eiders were swimming 

 about in the lake. At Cape Bolshaja Baranov, — especially in 

 a large valley thirty miles east of the Cape, — in the middle of 

 July, large flocks were constantly seen, — all the birds in the 

 plumage of the female, evidently all non-breeding birds. Many old 

 birds, but no young, also were seen at Karpe River on September 1. 



In the season of 1912-1913 quite a number of king eiders wintered 

 with the oldsquaws in the open holes in the ice at the Diomede 

 Islands. 



Somateria v-nigra Gray. 



One specimen preserved. Very common along the Siberian 

 Arctic coast from Bering Strait to Cape Wankarem, less common 

 farther west, and only occasionally seen beyond Cape Irkaipij. 

 At Ajan Islands, July 26, 1912, two females were found, one of 

 which was shot. This eider wintered, in 1912-1913, at the Dio- 

 mede Islands, with the other species already mentioned. 



Oidemia fusca (Linn.). 



No specimens were secured, and Mr. Koren's notes say only that 

 the velvet scoter was common at Kolyma, the first arrival being 

 noted on June 4, 1912. 



The snow goose {Chen hyperboreus hyperhoreus (Pallas)) was said 

 by the natives at Nijni Kolymsk, to occur there in early spring 

 regularly. Mr. Koren did not see it. 



