. . er part of October to April. Range. — Northeastern North America. Breeds from Ellesmere Land andboth coasts of Greenland south to northwestern Hudson Bay andsouthern Ungava; winters in southern Greenland and south rarely toMassachusetts. History. This is a North American race of the common Eider ofEurope {S. mollissimd) and isalmost identical with it. Prob-ably it formerly occurred not un-commonly off our coast, and mayyet appear here very rarely, as itnests on islands off the northerncoast of Labrador and is a rarevisitor on the
. . er part of October to April. Range. — Northeastern North America. Breeds from Ellesmere Land andboth coasts of Greenland south to northwestern Hudson Bay andsouthern Ungava; winters in southern Greenland and south rarely toMassachusetts. History. This is a North American race of the common Eider ofEurope {S. mollissimd) and isalmost identical with it. Prob-ably it formerly occurred not un-commonly off our coast, and mayyet appear here very rarely, as itnests on islands off the northerncoast of Labrador and is a rarevisitor on the Maine coast. It israted as rare at Nantucket (Howeand Allen), which is believed tobe about its southern limit. Itmay be readily distinguished fromthe common Eider when in handby a difference in shape of theprocesses of the bill, as shown inFig. 9. This bird furnishes much ofthe eiderdown that is gathered bythe Greenlanders, and it is not improbable that it was oneof the species sought by the feather hunters on the coast ofLabrador in the eighteenth FiQ. 9.— Bills of Eiders, one-quarternatural size, viewed from above and inprofile. Upper right hand and middlefigure represent the Eider; the others theNorthern Eider (after Sharpe). 148 GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. EIDER {Somateria dresscri). Common or local names: Sea Duck; Isles of Shoals Duck; Wamp; Squam Duck; Canvas-back.
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