248 EIDERS. 



219. AMERICAN EIDER. 



Large, 25; head, neck and above, white; 

 forehead, line through eye and beneath, 

 black; portion of head, pale green; naked 

 space at base of bill, white, fig. 190. Female, 

 reddish-brown, transversely banded with 

 dark-brown. Breeds of Atlantic coast from 



Fig. 194 Fig. 195 



Surf Scoter. 1.10. White winged Scoter, 1.10. 



Me. to Labrador, south in late Oct. to winter 

 from Mass, to Del.; on coast of Mass, keeps 

 well out to sea feeding about remote islands. 



220. NORTHERN EIDER. 

 Differs from last in having naked space 

 at base of bill narrow, fig. 191. Breeds in 

 north-eastern N. A. and Greenland, south 

 m winter to Mass. 



