﻿4 Oldham, On the Occurrence in Britain of the Pacific Eider \ 



Pike in Holland is in Mr. Hart's museum at Christchurch r 

 Hants (4). .S. v-nigrum inhabits north-eastern Asia and 

 north-western America east to the Great Slave Lake. 

 These three species are all closely allied. The fourth, S. 

 spectabilis (Linne), differs from them considerably in 

 appearance, and has been referred by Coues to a distinct 

 genus, Erionetta. It inhabits the arctic regions of the 

 northern hemisphere, wandering occasionally to New- 

 Jersey, the Great Lakes, and California in America ; and 

 in Europe, rarely, to the British Isles, France, and 

 Scandinavia. 



BIBLIOGRAPHY. 



(1) Salvadori, T., "Catalogue of the Birds in the British 



Museum," vol. 27, 1895. 



(2) Gray, G. R. "On a new species of Somateria." Proc. 



Zool. Soc. London, part 23, p. 211, plate 107 (1855). 



(3) Cf. " Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club" No. 112^ 



vol. 15, p. 32, 1905. 



(4) Saunders, H., "Illustrated Manual of British Birds," 



ed. 2, p. 460, 1899. 



