. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Birds; Birds; Birds; Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. eight.* The eggs are from four to ten in number, but often fewer; they are plain dull greenish-drab: measuring about 3x2. 161. Somateria v-nigra Gray. [628.] Paoiflo Eider. Hab. Coasts of the North Pacific; in the interior to the Great Slave \ke, and Eastern Siberia. The Pac/'fic Eider is common in suitable places on both coasts and islands of Bering Sea and the polar coasts of Siberia; replacing the Common Eider, S. molissima^ Spectacled and Steller's Eiders
. Nests and eggs of North American birds [microform]. Birds; Birds; Birds; Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. eight.* The eggs are from four to ten in number, but often fewer; they are plain dull greenish-drab: measuring about 3x2. 161. Somateria v-nigra Gray. [628.] Paoiflo Eider. Hab. Coasts of the North Pacific; in the interior to the Great Slave \ke, and Eastern Siberia. The Pac/'fic Eider is common in suitable places on both coasts and islands of Bering Sea and the polar coasts of Siberia; replacing the Common Eider, S. molissima^ Spectacled and Steller's Eiders. Dr. Stejneger says it is now rather scarce on the Commander Islands. On Copper Island it breeds only in a few places, and in limited num- bers. It breeds on the Aleutian Islands, the Island of St. Michael's, and in great numbers on the Arctic coast, near the mouth of the Anderson River. Its nesting habits are the same as those of ^. dres- seri^ and the eggs measure from to long by to broad. 162. Somateria spectabllis (Linn.) [629.] King Eider. Hab. Northern part of Northern Hemisphere, breeding in the Arctic regions; in North America south casually in winter to New Jersey and the Great Lakes. A beautiful Arctic species, very closely resembling the three last. It is a resident of Greenland, and is found on the Atlantic coasts of Europe and America, and on the Pacific coasts of America and Asia. Abundant in various places along the shores of the Arctic Ocean, thence southward in winter on the Pacific side in great numbers to the Aleutian Islands and beyond. Rare on the Alaskan coast of Bering Sea. The nests of this Eider, found in the islands of the Arctic seas, are placed in depressions of the ground, and composed wholly of down. In Greenland the King Eider breeds in the latter part of June or in the first part of July, nesting in the vicinity of ponds and marshes. Six eggs are the usual number laid, but as many as ten are said to be deposited. They vary fr
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