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KING DUCK. 
KING EIDER. 
Anas spectabilis, PENNANT. MonrTacu. 
Somateria spectabilis, FLEMING. SELBY. 
Anas—A Duck. Spectabilis—Showy—handsome, 
Tne King Duck is in Europe abundant in the extreme 
north—at Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla. It is not uncommon 
on the coast of Norway, as also in Sweden and Denmark 
in severe winter weather. 
In North America it is also plentiful about Hudson’s Bay, 
Labrador, and in other parts, and advances southward in 
winter as far as New York; also in Greenland. It occurs 
in Asia, namely, in Siberia and Kamtschatka. 
With us it is of but rare occurrence. One specimen was 
procured the first week in January, 1855, at Lowestoft, in 
Norfolk; another, a female, had been shot on Breydon, near 
Yarmouth, July 25th., 1818. In Suffolk, one was killed at 
Aldborough. 
Tn Ireland it is mentioned as extremely rare, but has 
occurred. One of these birds was shot in 1850, by Arthur 
Dymoke Bradshaw, Esq., as he has informed me, I believe 
on the Lough of Belfast. 
In Orkney if is a rare occasional visitant, and has been 
known formerly to breed on Papa Westray. 
This species frequents the open ocean, and also its bays, 
inlets, and the mouths of rivers. 
In the winter they do not go far south, but assemble, 
according to the report of Captain James C. Ross, R.N., in 
large flocks, the males by themselves, and the females with 
the young, and often in the open sea, far distant from any: 
