. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. , NORTH AMERICAN BIRD8. 93 The American Elder breeds along the Atlantic coast of North America from Maine to Northern Labrador. On Grand Manan and some of the smaller islands In that vicinity this duck formerly nested in great numbers, but from constant perse- cution its numbers have been greatly diminished. A female specimenof thisspeciesin my collection was taken November 11, 1895, at the Licking County Reservoir (Ohio) by William Harlow. It is one of the most characteristic summer ducks of Labrador and Newfoundland. Mr. Frazar found th
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. , NORTH AMERICAN BIRD8. 93 The American Elder breeds along the Atlantic coast of North America from Maine to Northern Labrador. On Grand Manan and some of the smaller islands In that vicinity this duck formerly nested in great numbers, but from constant perse- cution its numbers have been greatly diminished. A female specimenof thisspeciesin my collection was taken November 11, 1895, at the Licking County Reservoir (Ohio) by William Harlow. It is one of the most characteristic summer ducks of Labrador and Newfoundland. Mr. Frazar found this Eider breeding commonly on small Islands on the coast of Labrador, making the nest in the short, soft grass. The favorite nesting place was at the foot of some large rock, or in the nooks between rocks, where the birds found shelter from the wind. They were always made of the slate-colored down from the breasts of the birds. Most of the nests contained four or five eggs; a large number of six, two seven and one eight.* The eggs are from four to ten in number, but often fewer; they are plain duU-greenish-dralt; measur- ing about 3x2. 161. PACIFIC EIDEB. Somateria v-nigra Gray. Geog. Dist.—Coasts of the North Pacific; in the interior to the Great Slave Lake, and Eastern Siberia. The Pacific 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. moUssima, Spectacled and Steller's Eiders. Dr. Stejneger says it is now rather scarce oi the Com- mander Island. On Copper Island it breeds only in a few places, and in limited numbers. 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 S. dresseri, and the eggs measure ^®^- p^^^'c Eider. from to long by to broad. 162. KING EIBEB. Somateria spectabilis (Linn.) Geog. Dist.—Northern part of North
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