Class II. EIDER DUCK 



5 Si 



Wormius's Eider, or Toft fea- 

 thered Duck, the Cuthbert 

 Duck. Wil. cm. 362. 



Raiijyn. a<v. 141. 



Great black and white Duck. 

 Ed-ju. av. 98. 



Eider anas Sib. Scot. 21. 



The Colk. Martin's defcrip- 

 tion of the weft em ijles. 25. 



Anfer lanuginofus, l'Oye a 

 duvet. Brijfon a<v. VI. 294. 

 tab. 29. et 30. 



Anas niolliflima. Lin. Jyft. 271. Eider. 



198. 

 Ada, Eider, Gudunge, iEra. 



Faun. Suec.fp. 117. 

 Pont op. hift. Norway. 11. 70. 

 Hor. hift. Icel. 65. Debes Feroe 



137- ; 

 Egede's hift. Gree7iland. 92. 

 Mittek. Crantz's Green/. I. 81. 

 Edder. Brunnich, 57. 66. 



Monogr. tab. 1. 2. 

 Duntur Goofe. Sib. Scot. 21. 



THIS ufeful fpecies is found in the weftern 

 ijles of Scotland, particularly on Oranja y 

 Barra, Rona, and Heijker, and on the Farn ijles-, 

 but in greater numbers in Norway, Iceland, and 

 Greenland: from whence a vaft quantity of the 

 down, known by the name of Eider or Edder, which 

 thefe birds furnifh, is annually imported : its re- 

 markably light, elaclic, and warm qualities, make 

 it highly efteemed as a fluffing for coverlets, by 

 fuch whom age or infirmities render unable to fup- 

 port the weight of common blankets. This down 

 is produced from the breaft of the bird in the breed- 

 ing feafon. It lays its eggs among the (tones or 

 plants, near the more: and prepares a foft bed for 

 them, by plucking the down from its own bread \ 

 the natives watch the opportunity, and take away 

 both eggs and neft : the duck lays again, and re- 

 peats the plucking of its bread -, if me is robbed 



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