96 Miscellaneous Circular 13, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
158. Spectacled Hider (Arctonetta fischeri). 
Range.—Coasts of Bering Sea and adjacent Arctic Ocean. Breeds in Alaska from Point Barrow to the 
mouth of the Kuskokwim, and on the northern coast of Siberia west to the mouth of the Lena River; 
winters on the Aleutian Islands. : 
Wet Sena ’s elder, small pistrik (the latter term the Russian name for eiders) 
Alaska). 
160. Common Eider (Somateria mollissima). (Fie. 21.) 
Range.—Two subspecies of this eider occur in North America. Their ranges are as follows: 
Northern Eider (Somateria mollissima borealis)—Breeds from Ellesmere Land and both coasts of 
Greenland south to northwestern Hudson Bay and southern Ungava (Que.); winters in southern Green- 
land and south rarely to Massachusetts; accidental in South Dakota. 
Southern Eider (Somateria mollissima dresseri).—Breeds from southern Ungava (Que.) and Newfound- 
land to southeastern Maine, and on the southern half of Hudson Bay; winters from Newfoundland and 
Gulfof St. Lawrencesouth on Atlantic coast, regularly to Massachusetts, rarely to Virginia, and in interior 
rarely to Colorado, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, and western New York. 
FIG. 21.—Common Eider. 
VERNACULAR NAMES. 
In general use.—Sea duck, very often sea ducks and drakes, sometimes shortened 
to ducks and drakes. 
In local use.—Big sea-duck (Long Id., N. Y.); canvasback (Me., Mass.); black and 
white coot (Long Id., N. Y.); Eskimo duck (Labr.); Isle-of-Shoals duck (Mass., 
Conn., Long. Id., N. Y.); laying duck (Labr.); looby (Long Id., N. Y.); metik 
(Eskimo name) (Labr.); moyak (Eskimo name, variously spelled) (Labr., Que.); 
pied wamp (Mass.); sea-coot (Conn., Long Id., N. Y.); shoal duck (Mass., Long Id., 
N. Y.); shoreyer (Labr.); squam duck (Me.); squaw duck (Me.); wamp (Mass., 
R. I., Conn.). 
Geographic indez.—Conn., Isle-of-Shoals duck, sea-coot, wamp; Labr., Eskimo 
duck, laying duck, metik, moyak, shoreyer; Me., canvasback, squam duck, squaw 
duck; Mass., canvasback, Isle-of-Shoals duck, pied wamp, shoal duck, wamp; NV. Y., 
big sea-duck, black and white coot, Isle-of-Shoals duck, looby, sea-coot, shoal duck; 
Que., moyak; R. I., wamp. 
BOOK NAMES. 
For both subspecies —Canard eider (eider duck), eider commun (common eider), 
ereat blackand white duck. 
