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singularly marked plumage, cannot be confounded with any other 
species; the female is known by its dusky head and the white spot 
on either side. 
*Longtailed Duck (Harelda glacialis). “ Aglek.’—Common on 
the whole coast, and breeds also on the Parry Islands and on the 
land westward of Davis Strait. The long tail of the male suffi- 
ciently distinguishes it from that of any other duck; the female has 
a white or dirty white head with dusky spots. 
Scaup Duck (Fuligula marila).—Dr. Walker, of the ‘Fox,’ 
R.Y.S., obtained one at Godhavn, in August, 1857. Three 
specimens were sent from Nenortalik in 1859.* 
American Scaup Duck (Fuligula affinis)—A pair was shot 
in June on Innusulik, an islet some ten miles from Egedes- 
minde. It may possibly breed in Greenland. 
Surf Scoter (demia perspicillata).—A few specimens have been 
obtained from the Danish.settlements. It was observed by Graah 
on the East Coast. 
* Hider (Somateria mollissima?). Male, “ Amaulik”; female, 
* Arnauiak,” “ Mittek.".—Common along all the coasts, northern 
limit unknown. In the eider of the New World (S. Dressert), 
regarded by Mr. Sharpe as distinct from that of the Old, the bill is 
more gibbous, and the bare space behind the nostril more extended, 
than in the European bird. The eider of Davis Strait, and thence 
northward, will probably be found to belong to the American form, 
but the eider of the Kast Coast of Greenland is very likely to be the 
European. The eider of Spitsbergen has also been separated from 
S. mollissima by Dr. Malmgren under the name of S. thulensis, but 
the asserted difference between them, if it can be maintained at all, 
is but slight. In Western Aretic America occurs a very good 
species, the 8S. V-nigrum, larger than S. mollissima or S. Dresseri, 
and the male having a black chevron under the chin, as in that of 
the following. 
*King Duck (Somateria spectabilis). “Siorakitsok”; male, 
“ingalik”; female, “kaiortok,” “ arnauiartak.”—Said not to breed 
further south than lat. 67° N., but in some numbers at lat. 73°. 
Also on the East Coast of Greenland and on the western shores of 
Davis Strait. Breeds abundantly on the Parry Islands. The male 
easily distinguished from other species of the genus by its gray 
1 The tufted duck (Fuligula cristata) is said to haye been obtained, at Godhayn, 
by Dr. Walker, but this was probably a mistake. 
