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Genus ARCTONETTA Gray. 



Arctonetta Gray, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855 (1856), 212. Type, 

 by monotypy, Fvligvla fischeri Brandt. 



Arctonetta fischeri (Brandt). Spectacled Eider. [158.] 



Fuligvla {Lampronetta) fischeri Brandt, M6m. Acad. Imp. Sci. St.-Pdtersb. 

 (Sci. Nat.), s6r. 6, VI, 1849 (1847), 6, 10. (St. Michael, Alaska.) 



Range. — Coasts of Bering Sea and adjacent Arctic Ocean. Breeds 

 in Alaska from Point Barrow to mouth of the Kuskokwim, and on the 

 northern coast of Siberia west to mouth of the Lena River; winters on 

 the Aleutian Islands. 



Genus SOMATERIA Leach. 



Somateria Leach, in Ross, Voyage Discovery, 1819, App., xlviii. Type, 

 by subs, desig.. Anas moUissima Linn^us (Gray, 1840). 



SuBGENtrs SOMATERIA. 



Somateria mollissima (Linn^us). 



Range. — Arctic and subarctic Europe and northeastern North 

 America. 



a. [Somateria mollissima mollissima. Extralimital.] 



b. Somateria mollissima bore^lis (Breem). Northern Eider. [159.] 



Platypus borealis Brehm, Lehrbuch Vogel, II, 1824, 813. (Coasts of 

 Baffin Bay and Davis Strait; Greenland and Iceland.) 



Range. — Northeastern North America. Breeds from Ellesmere Land and 

 both coasts of Greenland south to northwestern Hudson Bay and southern 

 Ungava; winters in southern Greenland and south rarely to Massachusetts. 



Somateria dresseri Sharpe. Eider. [160.] 



Somateria dresseri Sharpe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 4, XLIII, July, 

 1871, 52. (North America.) 



Range. — Northeastern North America. Breeds from southern 

 Ungava and Newfoundland to southeastern Maine, and on the south- 

 ern half of Hudson Bay; winters from Newfoundland and Gulf of St. 



