. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. ANATIDiE, DUCKS. GEN. 269. 293 ^-/ ^ ( s'! European imder name of S. dresseri, by Mr. Sharpc, but I doubt the exclusive pertinence of the assigned characters. . mollissima (var?). Pacific Eider. Precisely like the last, excepting a V-shaped black mark on the chin; may require to be treated as merely a variety. Arctic and North Pacific coast, co
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. ANATIDiE, DUCKS. GEN. 269. 293 ^-/ ^ ( s'! European imder name of S. dresseri, by Mr. Sharpc, but I doubt the exclusive pertinence of the assigned characters. . mollissima (var?). Pacific Eider. Precisely like the last, excepting a V-shaped black mark on the chin; may require to be treated as merely a variety. Arctic and North Pacific coast, com- =e^ mon. Bd., 810; Elliot, p pi. 48. . V-NIGRA. ^ " King Eider. Bill with =^^ broad squarish nearly ver- tical frontal processes bulg- ing angularly out of line with cuhnen. ^ in breed- ing attire black, including a forked chin-patch, a frontal band, and small space round eye ; the neck and fore parts oi the body, part of interscapulars, ot wing coverts and of lining ^* of wings, and a flank patch, white, creamy on the jug- ulum, greenish on sides ot head ; crown and nape fine bluish-ash. 9 resembling that of the common eider, but bill different. Size of the last, or rather less. Both coasts, arctic and northerly; S. in winter sometimes to New York. Nutt., ii, 414; AuD., vi, 347, pi. 404; Bd., SPECTABILIS. i^lL 269. Genus CEDEMIA Fleming. *jf* Embracing the black sea-ducks, snrf-dueks, scoters or "coots" as they are variously called : maritime mollusk-eating species, scarcely fit for food ; $ black, relieved or not by definite 'vvliite patches on head or wings, or both, with brightly parti-colored bill, very broad at the end, singularly gibbous at base, but of different form in each of the following species, unnecessarily causing their separation into the three genera, mentioned below ; ? sooty-brown, etc., bill simply turgid at base, much widened at end ; but may be known by having the nostrils at the middle of the bill or bej'ond it, the nail broad, fu
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