EIDER DUCK. 



EIDER CO3OTON EIDER- ST. CUTHBERT's DUCK. COLK. 

 GREAT BLACK ASTD WHITE DUCK. 



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THE native haunts of the Eider are the frozen regions o 

 the north Greenland abounds with them, and they are 

 numerous on the coast of Labrador, in North America, and 

 all about Baffin's Bay and Davis' Straits. Their southernmost 

 range appears to be as far as Mayne and New York, in the 

 United States. 



In Europe they are plentiful about the shores of Norway, 

 Sweden, Lapland, Denmark, and Schleswig Holstein; Iceland, 

 Spitsbergen, the Fenroe Isles, Nova Zembla, and other parts 

 within the Frigid Zone: a few occur in Holland and France. 

 In Asia the species ranges in the same latitudes. 



Many breed off the Northumbrian coast, on the Fern 

 Islands, and Coquet Island, but they are far less numerous 

 than they used to be, having been much molested during 

 the breeding-season. 



A few have occurred by the shore, and even inland, in 

 other parts of the country. An Eider Duck was killed in 

 Berkshire, at Sunning, during a very severe frost In Durham 

 it has occurred near Bishop Auckland and HartlepooL In 

 Norfolk a few young birds have been met with on the coast. 



In Scotland, Robert Gray, Esq. has informed me of one 

 which occurred on the Tjne sands, Dunbar, in 1851. In 

 Orkney they are common, and many remain throughout the 

 year, and breed in various parts of the islands. The s 



