. The water birds of North America . ), are of a uniform light grayish-green color, with an olive shade, and measurefrom to inches in length, and from to in breadth. Somateria spectabilis. THE KING EIDER. Anns spectabilis, Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 123 ; ed. 12,1. 1768, 195. Somateria spectabilis, Boie, Isis, 1822, 564. — Sw. & Rich. F. B. A. II. 1831, 447. — Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 810 ; Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 608. — Coues, Key, 1872, 29:1 ; Check List, 1873, no. 515 ; 2d ed. 1882, no. 736 ; B. N. W. 1S74, 581. — RlDGW. Rom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. {Soma
. The water birds of North America . ), are of a uniform light grayish-green color, with an olive shade, and measurefrom to inches in length, and from to in breadth. Somateria spectabilis. THE KING EIDER. Anns spectabilis, Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 123 ; ed. 12,1. 1768, 195. Somateria spectabilis, Boie, Isis, 1822, 564. — Sw. & Rich. F. B. A. II. 1831, 447. — Baird, B. N. Am. 1858, 810 ; Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 608. — Coues, Key, 1872, 29:1 ; Check List, 1873, no. 515 ; 2d ed. 1882, no. 736 ; B. N. W. 1S74, 581. — RlDGW. Rom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. {Somateria) spectabilis, BONAP. Synop. 1828, 389. — XrTT. Man. II. 1S34, spectabilis, Aud. Orn. Biog. III. 1835, 523, pi. 276 ; Synop. 1S39, 291 ; B. Am. VI. 1843, 347, pi. Beringii, Gm. S. X. I. 1788, supcrba, Leach, Syst. Cat. 1816. 84 LAMELLIROSTRAL SWIMMERS — ANSERES. Hab. Northern part of the northern hemisphere ; in America, south, casually, in winter, toNew Jersey and the Great S. spectabilis. Sr. Char. Adult male: Feathers bordering the base of the maxilla all round, a spot beneathand behind the eye, and a large V-shaped mark on the throat, black ; entire top of the head and upper part of the nape delicate pearl-gray, or glaucous-blue, growing graduallydeeper behind, where sometimes borderedby an indistinct blackish line ; upper andanterior portion of the cheeks, below theeye and immediately behind the blackbordering the side of the bill, and anoblique patch on the auricular regiondelicate sea-green, the auricular patchabruptly denned anteriorly, but abovegradually fading into white, along theedge of the bluish-gray of the occiput andnape ; remainder of the head, neck, mid-dle of the back, wing-coverts (exceptgreater coverts and exterior border oflesser coverts), lining of the wing, and apatch on each side of the rump white ;breast and jugulum deep creamy of the plumage dull black,the falcate tertials with a n
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