EIDER DUCK. 



201 



NATATORES. 



AN ATI DM. 



THE EIDER DUCK, 

 OR St. Cuthbert's Duck. 



Alias mollissimn. Eider Buck, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 243. 



,, ,, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 322. 



Common Eider, Flem. Brit. An. p. 119. 



,, ,, Set.by, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 338. 



Eider Duck, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 237. 



,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. iv. 



Canard Eider, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 848. 



Somateria 



A7UIS 



Somateria. Generic Characters. — Bill swollen and elevated at the base ; 

 extending up on the forehead, where it is divided by an elongated, descending, 

 angular projection of feathers down the surface. Nostrils lateral, oval, small. 



