﻿KING ETDER. 137 



of the beak is flesh-coloured ; the upper part of the neck is 

 white ; the lower part ochreous yellow ; the mantle is white, as 

 also the wing-coverts, and a round patch on the sides between 

 the rump and the vent ; the rest of the upper and under 

 parts of the bird are all black ; the scapulars and tertials 

 reflected with green : the quills and tail are dusky ; the legs 

 and feet orange-red ; the webs dusky ; the eye is dark-brown. 



The female resembles the foregoing species of her sex so 

 completely, that if it were not for the frontal plates, which 

 are vertical instead of horizontal, they could hardly be 

 distinguished. 



The egg figured 258 is that of the King Eider. 



