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neck and breast assume the same colour ; the rest of the 
body remaining dark. The moult of the third year 
gives them a very piebald appearance by the acquisition 
of white upon the back and scapulars, and that of the 
fourth clothes them in the perfect garb of the adult. 
‘ KING EIDER. 
SSOMATERIA SPECTABILIS, Leach. 
PLATE LXXI. 
Somateria spectabilis, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 229.—Flem, Br. Anim. 1. 
120. sp. 177. 
Anas spectabilis, Linn. Syst. 1. 195. 5.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 907.—Lath. Ind. 
Ornith. 2. 845. sp. 36.—Sabine in Trans. Linn. Soc. 12. 553. sp. 26. 
Anas Freti Hudsonis, Briss. Orn. 6. 365. 15. 
Le Canard a téte grise, Buff: Ois. 9. 253.—Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 851. 
Grey-headed Duck, Edw. Glean. pl. 154. 
King Duck, Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. No. 481.—Lath. Syn. 6. 473. 30.—Lewin’s 
Br. Birds, 7. pl. 245.—Mont. Ornith. Dict. and App. to Sup.—Bewick’s 
Br. Birds, ed. 1826, 2. p. t. 310. 
King Eider, Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 1200. sp. 177.—Shaw’s Zool. 12. 229. 
Tue limit assigned to this species in Britain is consider- 
ably to the north of that of the Common Eider, as it has 
not been met with to the southward of the Orkneys, and the 
other northerly Scottish Isles. In one of the former (Papa 
Westra), Mr Buttock, proprietor of the late London Mu- 
seum, found it breeding in the month of June; but as he 
appears only to have met with a single nest during his tour, 
and the bird is mentioned by PENNanT as only sometomes 
visiting the Orkneys, it can scarcely be considered as en- 
titled to the phrase used by Mr Srepuens, in the Continua- 
tion of SHaw’s General Zoology, viz. ‘‘ a bird common in 
the Orcades and other parts of Scotland.” In Greenland, 
Spitzbergen, and other countries of the Frigid Zone, up to 
very high latitudes, it is found in great abundance, in num- 
bers equal to the Common Eider; and with which it fre- 
quently associates, as we learn from Captain SaBing, in his 
