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neck and breast assume the same colour ; the rest of the 

 body remaining dark. The moult of the third year 

 gives them a very piebald appearance by the acquisition 

 of white upon the back and scapulars, and that of the 

 fourth clothes them in the perfect garb of the adult. 



KING EIDER. 



SOMATERIA SPECTABILIS, Leach. 

 PLATE LXXI. 



Somateria spectabilis, Steph. Shaw's ZooL 12. 229 Flenu Br. Anim. 1. 



1-20. sp. 177- 

 Anas spectabilis, Linn. Syst. 1. 195. b.Gmel Syst. 1. 907. Lath. Ind. 



Ornith. 2. 845. sp. 36. SaUne in Trans. Linn. Soc. 12. 553. sp. 26. 

 Anas Freti Hudsonis, Briss. Orn. 6. 365. 15. 



Le Canard a tete grise, Buff. Ois. 9. 253 Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 851. 

 Grey-headed Duck, Edw. Glean. pL 154. 

 King Duck, Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. No. 481. Lath. Syn. 6. 473. 30 Lewirfs 



Br. Birds, 7- pL 245 Mont. Ornith. Diet, and App. to Sup Bewick's 



Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 2. p. t. 310. 

 King Eider, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 1200. sp. 177 Shaw's Zool. 12. 229. 



THE limit assigned to this species in Britain is consider- 

 ably to the north of that of the Common Eider, as it has 

 not been met with to the southward of the Orkneys, and the 

 other northerly Scottish Isles. In one of the former (Papa 

 Westra), Mr BULLOCK, proprietor of the late London Mu- 

 seum, found it breeding in the month of June ; but as he 

 appears only to have met with a single nest during his tour, 

 and the bird is mentioned by PENNANT as only sometimes 

 visiting the Orkneys, it can scarcely be considered as en- 

 titled to the phrase used by Mr STEPHENS, in the Continua- 

 tion of SHAW'S General Zoology, viz. u a bird common in 

 the Orcades and other parts of Scotland"" In Greenland, 

 Spitzbergen, and other countries of the Frigid Zone, up to 

 very high latitudes, it is found in great abundance, in num- 

 bers equal to the Common Eider ; and with which it fre- 

 quently associates, as we learn from Captain SABINE, in his 



