. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . er part of October to April. Range. — Northeastern North America. Breeds from Ellesmere Land andboth coasts of Greenland south to northwestern Hudson Hay andsouthern Ungava; winters in southern Greenland and south rarely toMassachu
. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . er part of October to April. Range. — Northeastern North America. Breeds from Ellesmere Land andboth coasts of Greenland south to northwestern Hudson Hay andsouthern Ungava; winters in southern Greenland and south rarely toMassachusetts. History. This is a North American race of the common Eider ofEurope {S. mollissima) and isahnost 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 Fig. 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 dresseri). Common or local names: Sea Duck; Isles of Shoals Duck; Wamp; Squam Duck; Canvas-back.
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