KING DUCK, 



KING EIDEE. 



Anas spectabilis, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Somateria spectabilis, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Anas A Duck. Spectabilis Showy handsome. 



THE King Duck is in Europe abundant in the extreme 

 north at Spitzbergen and Nova Zembla. It is not uncommon 

 on the coast of Norway, as also in Sweden and Denmark 

 in severe winter weather. 



In North America it is also plentiful about Hudson's Bay, 

 Labrador, and in other parts, and advances southward in 

 winter as far as New York; also in Greenland. It occurs 

 in Asia, namely, in Siberia and Kamtschatka. 



With us it is of but rare occurrence. One specimen was 

 procured the first week in January, 1855, at Lowestoft, in 

 Norfolk; another, a female, had been shot on Breydon, near 

 Yarmouth, July 25th., 1813. In Suffolk, one was killed at 

 Aid borough. 



In Ireland it is mentioned as extremely rare, but has 

 occurred. One of these birds was shot in 1850, by Arthur 

 Dyrnoke Bradshaw, Esq., as he has informed me, I believe 

 on the Lough of Belfast. 



In Orkney it is a rare occasional visitant, and has been 

 known formerly to breed on Papa Westray. 



This species frequents the open ocean, and also its bays, 

 inlets, and the mouths of rivers. 



In the winter they do not go far south, but assemble, 

 according to the report of Captain James C. Ross, R.N., in 

 large flocks, the males by themselves, and the females with 

 the young, and often in the open sea, far distant from anj 



