122 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



[B598, C5ii,R625. C731.] 

 Hah. Arctic and subarctic coasts of the Northern Hemisphere. 



Genus ARCTONETTA Gray. 

 Arctonetta Gray, P. Z. S. 1855, 12. Type, Fuligulajischeri Brandt. 



158. Arctonetta fischeri (Brandt). 



spectacled Kider. 



Fuli^^ula fischeri Brandt, Mdm. Acad. St. P(5tersb. VI. 1849, 6, 10. 

 A rc/onez/it jisi/ieri hLAKiSToa, Ibis, 1803, 150. 



[^ 599. C 512, R626, C 732.] 



Hab. Coast of Alaska, north to Point Barrow. 



Genus SOMATERIA Leach. 



Subgenus SOMATERIA. 



Somateria Leach, in Ross's Voy. Disc. 1819, App. p. xlviii. Type, 

 Anas inollissima LiXN. 



I ^/) rr 159. Somateria mollissima (Linn.). 



Eider. 



Arias inollissima LiNN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 124. 

 Somateria inollissima Boie, I sis, 1822. 564. 



[B 606, >7r/, C ^\Z,part, R 627, C 733.] 



Hab. Northern Europe and Northeastern North America, includ- 

 ing Greenland and Northern Labrador ; south in winter on the Atlan- 

 tic coast to Maine. 



160. Somateria dresseri Sharpe. 



American Eider. 



Somateria tfresseri SuARPE, Ann. Mag. Nat Hist. July, 1871, 51. 



[B 606, part, C 513,/drr/, R 627 a, C 734.] 



Hab. Atlantic coast of North America, from Maine to Labrador; 

 south in winter to the Delaware. 



