CUTHBERT EIDER. 



has all the plumage reddish, transversely rayed with 

 black : the wing-coverts are black in the middle, and 

 edged with deep red : on the wing are generally two 

 white bands : the belly and vent are brown, or deep ash, 

 with black bands. The young males of the first year 

 have the top of the head, the cheeks, and the upper 

 parts of the neck adorned with very soft and downy 

 feathers, of an ashy-brown hue, spotted with deep 

 brown : at the root of the beak and above the eyes is 

 a very broad whitish band, spotted with black : the 

 lower part of the neck and the breast are transversely 

 striped with black and w r hite bands, and varied with 

 ashy-red : the feathers on the upper parts are dusky, 

 edged with brown : the under parts are ashy-brown, 

 with all the feathers margined with whitish or clear 



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brown : the tail is ashy-brown : the beak and legs are 

 ashy-green, the latter sometimes reddish-brown : at 

 the age of two years all the colours are more perfect ; 

 the white spaces on the neck, breast, the top of the 

 back, and on the wings, are more distinct : the black 

 becomes stronger, and without spots, 'on the greater 

 part of the back : the lower parts are varied with 

 spots and stripes of red, black, and white. The 

 following year the plumage is still more regularly 

 marked : the white becomes pure, and the bands oa 

 the sides of the head are commenced : the cheeks 

 and the occiput are tinged with green : the back and 

 several of the scapulary feathers are black : and several 

 brown and striped feathers are mingled with the white 

 ones of the neck. In the fourth year the plumage 

 becomes perfect. 



v. xir. P. IT. 15 



