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Lawrence south on Atlantic coast, regularly to Massachusetts, rarely 

 to Virginia, and in interior rarely to Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, 

 and western New York. 



Somateria T-nigra Gray. Pacific Eider. [161.] 



Somateria v-nigra Gray, Proo. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1855 (Feb., 1856), 

 212, pi. cvii. (Kotzebue Sound.) 



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

 from northeastern Siberia and Arctic America, as far east as Copper- 

 mine River, south to Commander and Aleutian islands and Cook 

 Inlet; winters in Bering Sea, about Aleutian Islands; occasional on 

 Great Slave Lake; accidental in Kansas. 



Subgenus ERIONETTA Coues. 



Eriomtta Coues, Key N. A. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 709. Type, by orig. desig.. 

 Anas spectabilis Linn^us. 



Somateria spectabilis (Linn^us). King Eider. [162.] 



Anas spectabilis Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 123. (Sweden.) 



Range. — Northern part of Northern Hemisphere. Breeds along 

 the whole coast of northern Siberia, Bering Sea (St. Lawrence Island), 

 and Arctic coast of America from Icy Cape east to Melville Island, 

 Wellington Channel, northern Greenland, northwestern Hudson 

 Bay, and northern Ungava; winters on Pacific coast from Aleutian 

 Islands to Kadiak Island, in the interior rarely to the Great Lakes, 

 and from southern Greenland and Gulf of St. Lawrence south regu- 

 larly to Long Island, rarely to Georgia; accidental in California and 

 Iowa. 



Genus OIDEMIA Fleming. 



Oidemia Fleming, Philos. Zoology, II, 1822, 260. Type, by subs, desig., 

 . Anas nigra Linn^us (Gray, 1840). 



Subgenus OIDEMIA. 

 Oid6mia americana Swainson. Scoter. [163.] 



Oidemia americana Swainson, Fauna Bor.-Am., II, 1831 (1832), 450. 

 (Hudson Bay, Lat. 57° N.) 



