EIDER DUCK. 



NATATORES. 



297 

 ANATID^E. 



SS^- 



THE EIDER DUCK. 



OR ST. CUTHBERT S DUCK. 



Somateria mollissima. 



ATMS mollissima, Eider Duck, 



Somateria 



Anas 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 243. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 322. 



Common Eider, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 119. 



SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 338. 



Eider Duck, JENVNS, Brit. Vert. p. 237. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. iv. 



Cmifird Eider, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 848. 



SOMATERIA. Generic Characters. Bill swollen and elevated at the base ; 

 extending up on the forehead, where it is divided by an elongated, descending, 

 angular projection of feathers down the surface. Nostrils lateral, oval, small. 

 Legs short ; feet of four toes, broadly webbed, hind toe with a deeply lobated 



