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the upper parts dark brown, transversely lunulated with light 
red. Young nearly similar to the female. 
This species has been met with very rarely in Shetland 
and Orkney, but nowhere else in Britain. In many parts of 
the arctic regions of both continents it is, however, abundant. 
The nest and eggs are similar to those of the common species, 
but the latter are smaller. 
King Duck. 
Anas spectabilis, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 195 . — Anas spectabi- 
lis, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 845 . — Anas spectabilis, Temm. 
Man. d’Ornith. ii. 851 . — Somateria spectabilis, Black-backed 
Eider, MacGillivray, Brit. Birds, v. 
GENUS CXXX. OIDEMIA. SCOTEK. 
The species of this genus are of large size, although in- 
ferior to the Eiders, to which they seem to approximate in 
some respects. They have the body very bulky and much 
depressed ; the neck of moderate length and thick ; the 
head large, oblong, compressed. Bill nearly of the same 
length as the head, as high as broad at the base, depressed 
and flattened toward the end, which is rounded ; upper man- 
dible with a prominence at the base above, and „ two lateral 
protuberances, the dorsal line rapidly sloping to beyond the 
nostrils, then somewhat concave to the unguis, which is 
very large and broadly elliptical, the ridge broad and bat- 
tened at the base, broadly convex toward the end, the edges 
thin, with the lamellae not projecting ; lower mandible with 
the crura rearcuate, the unguis very large and broadly el- 
liptical. Mouth of moderate width ; anterior palate broadly 
concave, with a median prominent line, on which are some 
tubercles, and from thirty to forty marginal lamellae ; tongue 
large, fleshy, with numerous basal papillae, a deep median 
groove, two lateral series of bristles, and a thin rounded 
tip ; oesophagus wide ; stomach a powerful gizzard of a 
roundish form, with very large lateral muscles, longitudi- 
nally rugous epithelium, and thick grinding plates ; intes- 
tine of moderate length, wide ; coeca rather long, narrow. 
Trachea with two abrupt bony expansions, one at the up- 
per larynx, the other roundish and flattened ; lower larynx 
large, but symmetrical ; bronchi wide. Nostrils elliptical, 
