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GENUS ARCTONETTA Gray. 
Arctoneita Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855 (1856), 212. Type, 
by monotypy, Fuligula fischeri BRANDT. 
Arctonétta fischeri (BRANDT). Spectacled Eider. [158.] 
Fuligula (Lampronetta) fischeri BRANDT, Mém. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pétersb. 
(Sei. Nat.), sér. 6, VI, 1849 (1847), 6, 10. (St. Michael, Alaska.) 
RanceE.— Coasts of Bering Sea and adjacent Arctic Ocean. Breeds 
in Alaska from Point Barrow to mouth of the Kuskokwim, and on the 
northern coast of Siberia west to mouth of the Lena River; winters on 
the Aleutian Islands. 
GENUS SOMATERIA Leacu. 
Somateria Leacu, in Ross, Voyage Discovery, 1819, App., xlviii. Type, 
by subs. desig., Anas mollissima Linnxus (Gray, 1840). 
Suspcenus SOMATERIA. 
Somatéria mollissima (LINN vs). 
RanGe.— Arctic and subarctic Europe and northeastern North 
America. 
a. [Somateria mollissima mollissima. Extralimital.] 
b. Somateria mollissima borealis (BreHm). Northern Eider. [159.] 
Platypus borealis Breum, Lehrbuch Vogel, II, 1824, 813. (Coasts of 
Baffin Bay and Davis Strait; Greenland and Iceland.) 
Rancae.— Northeastern North America. Breeds from Ellesmere Land and 
both coasts of Greenland south to northwestern Hudson Bay and southern 
Ungava; winters in southern Greenland and south rarely to Massachusetts. 
Somateria drésseri SHARPE. Eider. [160.] 
Somateria dresseri SHARPE, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, XLIII, July, 
1871, 52. (North America.) 
RancGE.— Northeastern North America. Breeds from southern 
Ungava and Newfoundland to southeastern Maine, and on the south- 
ern half of Hudson Bay; winters from Newfoundland and Gulf of St. 
