Duck-shooting 165 



SPECTACLED EIDER 

 {Arctonetia fischeri) 



Adult male — Feathers projecting on the bill, yellowish white, grad- 

 ing anteriorly into sea-green on the forehead and lores ; this 

 color extends in a narrow line along the crown and in a rather 

 broad stripe beneath the eye patch, broadening out on the thick 

 occipital crest ; the green is deepest on the lores, and on the 

 stripe under the eye, and edge of crest ; a large circle of satiny 

 white surrounds the eye, covering nearly all the side of the face 

 and crown, bordered above and on either side by a narrow line 

 of black ; chin, throat, neck, back, scapulars, and a large patch on 

 each side of the rump, white; greater wing-coverts, primaries, 

 and tail, dark brown ; lower back and rump, upper tail-coverts, 

 and breast, dark plumbeous, grading into smoky black on lower 

 breast ; bill, orange, palest on nail ; iris, brown, surrounded by 

 a bluish ring ; legs and feet, olive-brown. 



Measurements — Length, 21.50 inches ; wing, 11 inches; tarsus, 1.90 

 inches ; culmen, i inch. 



Adult female — Top and back of head, yellowish buff, streaked with 

 dusky ; a broad stripe in front of eyes beginning at the corners 

 of mouth and extending on to centre of head ; space around 

 eyes and cheeks, buff, streaked with dusky ; upper parts, barred 

 coarsely with brown and black, also breast and sides ; remainder 

 of under parts, grayish brown ; bill, slate ; legs and feet, yellowish 

 brown. 



Measurements — Length, 21 inches; wing, 10.50 inches; tarsus, 

 1.75 inches; culmen, i inch. 



Eggs — Five to nine in number, grayish white, measure 2.55 by 1.75 

 inches. 



Habitat — Breeds on the Alaskan coast, from the mouth of the Kus- 

 kokwin to Point Barrow, and is said to be a common breeding 

 resident on the Near Islands. Winter range unknown, probably 

 the Aleutian Islands. 



With a limited range of some four hundred 

 miles of Alaskan coast, an area exposed through- 

 out its entire extent to the ravages of natives, the 



