422 TEN YEAES IN SWEDEN. 



divided at the sides of the occiput by a green band ; cheeks 

 white ; back of head, and sides of neck pale green ; neck, 

 back, scapulars, lesser wing coverts, tertials (which fall 

 handsomely over the wings), shoulder, and sides of rump, 

 pure white ; greater wing coverts black ; primaries brown ; 

 upper neck white in front, lower neck cream yellow ; breast 

 black ; legs and feet yellow-green. 



The female is of a yellowish brown colour all over, with 

 darker markings, not unlike a dark grey hen; wings and 

 tail black. 



Male, in summer, shot in July; the whole bird coal 

 black ; a pale streak through the eye ; throat grey ; upper 

 breast watered yellow, brown, and black ; lower breast black 

 and brown ; back blackish ; of the old tail feathers nothing 

 remaining except worn stumps. 



On many places off these coasts, as the Isle of Born- 

 holm in the South Baltic, but more especially on the 

 coast of Norway, within the Polar circle, the eider breeds 

 in great numbers. 



278. S. SPECTABILIS, Flem. Prakt Ejder. The King Duck. 



D. F. 



Nearly as large as the last ; the angular projections 

 of feathers from the forehead extends much further 

 down the beak than the two side projections (in the 

 common eider it is much shorter, and the lateral feather 

 projections extend as far as under the nostrils), and 

 the forehead in the male has an upraised swelling as 

 in the scoters; beak orange in the male, brown in 

 the female ; legs in the male red. The male : crown and 

 back of the head grey, sides of the head green ; neck, 

 upper portion of the back, and wing coverts, white ; 

 rest of back and upper tail coverts, black ; primaries, 

 secondaries, and tertials black, the latter falling over 

 the wings; breast buffy white; all the rest of the 

 under parts black ; an oval patch of white on the black 

 flanks. The female : general plumage pale brown, with 

 darker markings. 

 I never heard of the king duck visiting these coasts, 



