)68 SOMATERIA SPECTABILIS. 
[§ 5660. One.—Davis Strait. From Mr. Robert Dunn, 
1847.] | 
[ 5661. One.—Women’s Islands, North Greenland, 1861. 
From Dr. James Taylor, 1862. 
Dr. Taylor was a surgeon on board a whaler (§§ 4859, 5651), and this egg 
bears a label with the name of the species in his handwriting. } 
[§ 5662. One.—lIsland in sea, east of, 
Anderson River, 6 July, 1863. 
« Female shot near nest.” From the Smithsonian 
Institution, through 
Professor Baird, 
[§ 5663. Mowr—Island in Franklin 1866 and 1867. 
Bay, 4 July, 1864. “ Female 
shot.” / 
The first of these is stated on the accompanying ticket to be one of two 
from a “nest of Eider down in hole,” the number of the bird shot being 
“36274.” The remaining four are marked as being the complete contents of 
a “nest on a small islet in a small lake,’ and the number of the bird shot 
from it is “44243.” All are Mr. MacFarlane’s collecting, and he says of this 
species (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 422) :—“Tolerably common in Franklin 
Bay, where an aggregate of some two hundred eggs were secured on the 
several summer (1862 to 1865) visits paid to that quarter..... In addition 
to the eggs above mentioned, the contents of about twenty nests were also 
received from the Esquimaux of Liverpool Bay. <A few birds occasionally 
breed in close proximity to S. v.-nigra, and the male is nearly as wary in 
keeping beyond gunshot.” 
[§ 5664. One.—Floeberg Beach, N. lat. 82° 27', 9 July, 1876. 
«H. W. F.” From Captain Feilden, 1877. 
Capt. (now Colonel) Feilden wrote that the Duck was shot from this nest, 
and in ‘The Ibis’ for 1877 (p. 412) stated that several flocks of males and 
females, from ten to twenty in number, were seen at the place named, ‘and 
several nests were found with fresh eggs in them from the 9th to the middle 
of July.” | 
