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(B) 699) Cigna. Ri G26;/Ci922)) 
Geroc. Dist.— Alaskan coast of Bering Sea and north to Point 
Barrow. 
Genus SOMATERIA Leacu. 
SuBGENUS SOMATHERIA. 
Somaterta LEACH, in Ross’s Voy. Disc. 1819, App. p. xlviii. 
Type, Auas mollissima LINN. 
159. Somateria mollissima borealis A. E. BrEHM. 
Northern Eider. 
Somateria mollissima borealis A. E. BrREHM, Verz. Samml. Eur. 
Vo6g. 1866, 14. 
[B 606, part, C 513, part, R 627, C 733.] 
Groc. Dist.— Northeastern North America, including Greenland; 
south, in winter, to coast of Massachusetts. 
160. Somateria dresseri SHARPE. 
American Hider. 
Somateria dressert SHARPE, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. July, 1871, 51. 
[B 606, part, C 513, part, R 627a, C 734.] 
‘Groce. Dist.— Atlantic coast of North America, from Maine to 
Labrador; south in winter to the Delaware and west to the Great 
Lakes. 
161. Somateria v—nigra Gray. 
Pacific Eider. 
Somateria v-nigra GRAY, P. Z. S. 1855 (Feb. 1856), 212, pl. cvii. 
MB) 607,/C/514,/R628)Ci735. | 
Geroc. Dist.— Coasts of the North Pacific; inthe interior to the 
Great Slave Lake district ; eastern Siberia. 
SuBGENUS HRIONETTA Covues. 
Erionetia Cours, Key N. A. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 709. Type, 
Anas spectabilis LINN, 
