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292 ANATIDH, DUCKS. —GEN. 266-8. 
band, and a black chin-patch and eye-ring; collar round neck, and upper 
parts, lustrous velvety black, the lengthened curly scapulars and tertiaries. 
silvery-white on the inner webs, the lesser and middle wing coverts white, 
the greater coverts and secondaries white-tipped, enclosing the violet 
speculum; under parts rich reddish-brown, blackening on the belly and: 
crissum, fading through buff to white on the breast and sides, where there 
are black spots. ¢ reddish-brown, blackening below, varied with darker on’ 
the head, neck and fore parts; tips of greater coverts and secondaries alone 
white, enclosing the speculum. Length about 18; wing 8. Northwest: 
Coast. ‘Nutr., ii, 451 3: 
Aup.,vi, 368, pl. 407 ; 
Bo., 801. sreLLERI.: 
** Bill without frontal 
processes, feathered to 
the nostrils. (Lampro- 
netta.). : 
Spectacled Hider. 
$ black or blackish, 
the throat, most of 
neck, fore back, wing 
coverts, scapulars, ter- 
tials and flank-patch,. 
white ; nape and occi- 
put green; a whitish. 
space round eye, 
bounded by black; 9. 
said to be brown, varied with darker, the chin and throat whitish, the eye 
patch obscurely indicated ; after the summer moult the ¢ is said to be like 
the 9. Length about 2 feet. Northwest Coast, common about St. Michaels. 
Dat, Trans. Chicago Acad. i, 299; Exxior, pl. 47; Bp., 803. ¥FIscHERI. 
*** Bill with frontal processes, not feathered to the nostrils. (Somateria.) 
Eider Duck. Bill with long club-shaped processes extending in a line 
with the culmen upon the sides of the forehead, divided by a broad feathered 
interspace. ¢ in breeding attire white, creamy-tinted on breast and washed 
with green on head; under parts from the breast, lower back, rump, tail, 
quills, and large forked patch on the crown, black. 9 with the bill less 
developed, general plumage an extremely variable shade of reddish-brown or 
ochrey-brown, speckled, mottled and barred with darker; @ in certain stages 
resembling the ¢. Length about 2 feet; wing 11-12 inches. Arctic and 
N. Atlantic Coasts, abundant, S. in winter to New England commonly, to 
the Middle States rarely. This celebrated bird, semi-domesticated in some 
places, yields most of the prized eider-down of commerce, which the parent 
plucks from the breast to cover the eggs; eggs commonly 3-4, pale dull 
greenish. WI£Ls., viii, 122, pl. 71, f. 2,3; Nurr., ii, 407; Aup., vi, 349, 
pl. 405; Bp., 809. The American bird has lately been separated from the 
Fic. 191. Spectacled Eider. 
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