. American game birds . *7. EIDER (Somatcria dresseri). These verylarge and handsome ducks, measuring 24 length, live quite extensively upon smallfish as well as mollusks and insects; theirflesh is consequently tough and very unpal-atable, but they are nevertheless valuablebirds, for they furnish the eider down of com-merce, this being gathered from their nestson northern islands. This species breedsfrom Maine to Labrador and in the southernhalf of Hudson Bay. Another species,NORTHERN EIDER {Somateria mollis-sima borealis), which differs from this in hav-ing the soft basal portion of the

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. American game birds . *7. EIDER (Somatcria dresseri). These verylarge and handsome ducks, measuring 24 length, live quite extensively upon smallfish as well as mollusks and insects; theirflesh is consequently tough and very unpal-atable, but they are nevertheless valuablebirds, for they furnish the eider down of com-merce, this being gathered from their nestson northern islands. This species breedsfrom Maine to Labrador and in the southernhalf of Hudson Bay. Another species,NORTHERN EIDER {Somateria mollis-sima borealis), which differs from this in hav-ing the soft basal portion of the bill pointedinstead of rounded, breeds farther north andin Greenland. Both species winter south onthe coast as far as Massachusetts. Theirflight is rather heavy and is usually per-formed in Indian file. PACIFIC EIDERS (Somateria v-nigra)a, *^7f^ are plumaged just like the Northern, except lB| that the male lias a black V-shaped mark Hl^^ JH extending back from below the bill. Pacific ^I^IPHL Eiders are found chiefly on the

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