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Male: with the crown and occiput light cinereous grey; cheeks 
light green; round the base of the bill a band, and on the chin a | 
V-shaped mark, black; remainder of the neck, breast, and upper part 
of the back white, slightly tinged with purplish ; lower part of the 
back, tail quills, tertiaries, scapulars, and under parts black; tail and 
greater wing coverts white; bill and legs red, the former with a large 
knob at the base, the top of which is covered with feathers. 
Fem.: in colour resembling the female of the common eider ; 
but can be distinguished by the knob at the base of the bill being 
larger. : 
Somateria spectabilts......s.eee Steph. Sh. Zool. 12. 229. 
ANAS SpectAOWis Foes ceus ans0venewe Linn. Syst. 1.195. 
Gmel. Syst. 1. 907. 
Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 845. 
Grey-headed Duche =. .cc..sd esse Edw. Glea, pl. 154. 
Anas freti Hudsonis ...cccscenee Briss. Orn. 365. 
TU I PUCIN gon sdavinn catiomacaeaua Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. N. 481. 
Le Canard a tete grise .......00. Buff. Ois. 9. 258. 
TRACK. Foe si Senadeo nes eee wate eae Linn. Trans. vol. 15, tab. 15, 
c—d. 
Inhabits the same countries as the preceding ; builds its nest, which 
is formed of sea weeds, on rocks and islands on the sea coast, laying five 
or six eggs scarcely to be distinguished from the preceding. By the 
Greenlanders this bird is considered a delicacy, particularly the 
knob at the base of the bill. 
SOMATERIA V NIGRUM. 
Som.—Sequenti similis, sed V subrostro. 
Som.—Similar to the common eider, but with a V-shaped mark 
under the chin. 
IN. IN. 
ECR OEY Gitmict pdcsaetineuts 22 WA Z6QLAT SUS... woeas dean vas 3 
Bill 0 Gape <.cesesceres. 3 Middle t00* ss. ection. 3 
Somateria V nigrum v.00. GR. Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
1855. 
Rather smaller than the common eider. 
Hab. Russian-America. 
SOMATERIA ST. CUTHBERTLI. 
Som. Mas.—Capite supra occipiteque viridibus. 
Som. Fem.—Brunnea, transversim lineata atro. 
