122 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B S9 8, C 5 n, R 625, C 73 I.] 

 HAB. Arctic and subarctic coasts of the Northern Hemisphere. 



GENUS ARCTONETTA GRAY. 

 Arctonetta GRAY, P. Z. S. 1855, 12. Type, Fuligula fischeri BRANDT. 



158. Arctonetta fischeri (BRANDT). 



Spectacled Eider. 



Fuligula fischeri BRANDT, Me"m. Acad. St. Petersb. VI. 1849, 6 > Io - 

 Arctonetta fischeri BLAKISTON, Ibis, 1863, 150. 



[B 599, C 512, R 626, C 732.] 

 HAB. Coast of Alaska, north to Point Barrow. 



GENUS SOMATERIA LEACH. 

 SUBGENUS SOMATERIA. 



Somateria LEACH, in Ross's Voy. Disc. 1819, App. p. xlviii. Type, 

 Anas mollissima LINN. 



159. Somateria mollissima (LINN.). 



Eider. 



Anas mollissima LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 124. 

 Somateria mollissima BOIE, Isis, 1822. 564. 



[B 6o6,/rtr/, C 513, part, R 627, C 733.] 



HAB. Northern Europe and Northeastern North America, includ- 

 ing Greenland and Northern Labrador; south in winter on the Atlan- 

 tic coast to Maine. 



160. Somateria dresseri SHARPE. 



American Eider. 



Somateria dresseri SHARPE, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. July, 1871, 51. 

 [B 606, part, C 513,/^r/, R 627^ C 734.] 



HAB. Atlantic coast of North America, from Maine to Labrador ; 

 south in winter to the Delaware. 



