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[B S99. C 512, R 626, C 732.] 



Geog. Dist. — Alaskan coast of Bering Sea and north to Point 

 Barrow. 



Genus SOMATERIA Leach. 

 Subgenus SOMATERIA. 



Somateria Leach, in Ross's Voy. Disc. 18 19, App. p. xlviii. 

 Type, Anas mollissima Linn. 



159. Somateria mollissima borealis A. E. Brehm. 



Northern Eider. 



Somateria mollissima borealis A. E. Brehm, Verz. Samral. Eur. 

 Vog. 1866, 14. 



[B 606, part, C 513,/^!^/, R 627, C 733.J 



Geog. Dist. — Northeastern North America, including Greenland ; 

 south, in winter, to coast of Massachusetts. 



160. Somateria dresseri Sharpe. 



American Eider. 



Somateria dresseri Sharpe, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. July, 1871, 51. 



[B (>o6,j>art, C ^i^,pari, R 627^, C 734.J 



Geog. Dist. — Atlantic coast of North America, from Maine to 

 Labrador; south in winter to the Delaware and west to the Great 

 Lakes. 



161. Somateria v-nigra Gray. 



Pacific Eider. 



Somateria v-nigra Gray, P. Z. S. 1855 (Feb. 1856), 212, pi. cvii. 



[B607, C 514, R 628, C73S.] 



Geog. Dist. — Coasts of the North Pacific ; in the interior to the 

 Great Slave Lake district ; eastern Siberia. 



Subgenus BRIONETTA Coues. 



Erionetta Coues, Key N. A. Birds, ed. 2, 1884, 709. Type, 

 Afias spectabilis LiNN. 



