80 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 
Lawrence south on Atlantic coast, regularly to Massachusetts, rarely 
to Virginia, and in interior rarely to Colorado, lowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, 
and western New York. 
Somateria v-nigra Gray. Pacific Eider. [161.] 
Somateria v-nigra Gray, Proc. Zool. Soe. Lond., 1855 (Feb., 1856), 
212, pl. evii. (Kotzebue Sound.) 
RanGE.— Coasts of Bering Sea and adjacent Arctic Ocean. Breeds 
from northeastern Siberia and Arctic America, as far east as Copper- 
mine River, south to Commander and Aleutian islands and Cook 
Inlet; winters in Bering Sea, about Aleutian Islands; occasional on 
Great Slave Lake; accidental in Kansas. 
SuspcENus ERIONETTA Cougs. 
Erionetta Cours, Key N. A. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 709. Type, by orig. desig., 
Anas spectabilis LINN&=US. 
Somateria spectabilis (LINNmUs). King Eider. [162.] 
Anas spectabilis Linnaus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 123. (Sweden.) 
RanGe.— Northern part of Northern Hemisphere. Breeds along 
the whole coast of northern Siberia, Bering Sea (St. Lawrence Island), 
and Arctic coast of America from Icy Cape east to Melville Island, 
Wellington Channel, northern Greenland, northwestern Hudson 
Bay, and northern Ungava; winters on Pacific coast from Aleutian 
Islands to Kadiak Island, in the interior rarely to the Great Lakes, 
and from southern Greenland and Gulf of St. Lawrence south regu- 
larly to Long Island, rarely to Georgia; accidental in California and 
Iowa. 
GENUS OIDEMIA FLEMING. 
Oidemia FLEMING, Philos. Zoology, II, 1822, 260. Type, by subs. desig., 
Anas nigra Linnaxus (Gray, 1840). 
SuspGcenus OIDEMIA. 
Oidémia americana SwAINSON. Scoter. [163.] 
Oidemia americana Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 (1832), 450. 
(Hudson Bay, Lat. 57° N.) 
