ANATINiE. FULIGULA. 
291 
Upper mandible with a soft tumid compressed substance at the 
base, extending perpendicularly upon the forehead, and by a medial 
band of feathers divided into two broad lobes ; tail much rounded, of 
fourteen stiff feathers. Male with the bill flesh-coloured. The sides 
of the upper mandible and soft frontal lobes bright orange ; band of 
feathers separating the frontal lobes and margining their upper and 
posterior edges, lower eyelid, and a/orked patch on the throat, black ; 
upper part of head ash-grey ; hair-like feathers on the sides of the 
head pale bluish-green ; fore neck cream-coloured ; sides and hind 
part of neck, a patch on the wings, and another on each side of the 
rump, white ; hind part of back, scapulars, large wing -coverts, and 
secondary quills, brownish-black, the latter glossed with green ; pri- 
mary quills and tail blackish-brown ; breast and abdomen blackish- 
brown ; lower wing-coverts white, the outer brown. Female with 
the bill shorter, pale greenish-grey, with the tumid basal lobes scarcely 
apparent, so that the forehead is low ; head and neck pale greyish- 
yellow, with small lines of brownish-black; feathers of the back 
brownish-black towards the end ; with yellowish-grey edges ; the 
scapulars brownish-red on the margins ; quills and tail-feathers deep 
greyish-brown ; fore part of neck, breast, sides, and lower tail-coverts, 
with a central mark and submarginal band of brownish-black, the 
middle of the breast scarcely spotted, being of the general colour of 
the lower parts, which is pale yellowish-brown. 
Male, 25 ; wing, 11^. Female, 20 ; wing, 10|. 
Rare in Massachusetts during winter. Breeds from Labrador to the 
Arctic Seas. 
Fuligula spectabilis, Bonap. Syn. p. 389. 
Somateria spectabilis, King Duck, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 447. 
King Duck, Fuligula spectabilis, Ndtt. Man. v. ii. p. 414. 
King Duck, Fuligula spectabilis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 523. 
406. 11. Fuligula mollissima, Linn. Eider Duck. 
Plate CCXLVI. Male and Female. 
Male with the bill nearly as long as the head, greyish-yellow, the 
upper mandible with a soft tumid substance at the base, extending 
upon th^orehead, and deeply divided into two narrow rounded lobes, 
its whole surface marked with divergent oblique lines ; tail much 
rounded, of sixteen narrow feathers ; the upper part of the head 
bluish-black, with the central part white ; the hair-like feathers on 
the upper part and sides of the neck of a delicate pale green ; sides of 
the head, throat, and neck white ; fore neck at its lower part cream- 
coloured ; the rest of the lower surface brownish-black, as are the 
upper tail-coverts, and the central part of the rump ; the rest of the 
back, scapulars, smaller wing-coverts, and inner curved secondary 
quills white, the scapulars tinged with yellow ; secondary coverts and 
