230 REPTILES AND BIRDS. 
Baltic and North Sea; it is also found in America, and on the 
southern coasts of France, as well as on the edge of the Northern 
Ocean. The nest is usually placed in some indentation in the sand, 
the female frequently choosing a rabbit’s hole, situated in a sand- 
bank. The poor rabbit, thus turned out of its burrow, never ventures 
to return to it. 
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Tue Erwer Duck (Anas molessima). 
The Eider Duck, though remarkable for beauty of plumage, is 
nevertheless a very clumsy bird. In form it is bulky, depressed, 
and elliptical, with large, oblong, and compressed head. The 
plumage is dense and fine; the head-feathers are short, tufted, and 
rounded, and, blending with the terminal filaments, disunited ; the 
wings diminutive, concave, narrow, and pointed, the tips of which 
