EIDER DUCK. SS3 



tail and legs black. Length two feet o^e inch. Extent four 

 feet five. Weight about five pounds. 



Thefe birds are feen, but extremely rarely, in Hudfon's Bay. It is Plage. 



found, and I believe breeds, in the north of Rujia and Lapland, in 

 Norway, and in Iceland * ; but not in Sihiria. They appear on the 

 Briti/h fhores and marfhes, in vaft flocks, during winter ; but retire 

 in February. Linnaus unaccountably makes the White-fronted 

 Goofe, N° 476, the female of this. \ 



Br. Zoil. ii. N° 271.— Anas Molliffima, Ada, Eider, Gudunge, Faun. Suec. N° J 17. 4So. Eider, 



— Latham, iii. 

 Great Black and White Duck, EJiu. 98. — PI. Enl 208, 209.— Lev. Mus.— 



Bl. Mus. 



T\^ With a black bill, fomewhat elevated : forehead of a velvet 

 black : a broad black bar, glofled with purple, extends from 

 thence beyond each eye : middle of the head, whole neck, upper 

 part of the back, fcapulars, and coverts of the wings, white : be- 

 low the hind part of the head is a flain of pea-green : lower part 

 of the back, tail, breaflr, and whole under fide of the laody, black: 

 legs greenifh. The Female is almoft entirely of a dull ruft-color, 

 barred with black : prirna'ries and tail dufky. Weight of the female 

 is about three pounds and a half. The Male is double the fize of 

 the common Tame Duck. 



'Inha'bits the Teas near New Tork, in the fpring feafon; and breeds Fla0j, 



on the defert ifles of New EngUnd, and from thence as far as the 

 extreme coafts of the northern world, in America, Europe, and Afia-, 

 ;but never comes within land. Common in Kamtfchatka, The 

 moft fouthern of its breeding-places are the Fern ifles, on the coaft 

 of Northumberland. Lays feldom more than five eggs ; thofe large, 

 and of a pale green color. Thefe birds afford the moft luxurious of 



* Not in Greenland or Sftt^ltrgen, as J once conjedlurc]. See Br. Zool. di. p. 578. 



4 B ' down. 



