Pacific Eider in Washington
Journal
Condor
Volume
8
Issue
2 (March-April)
Year
1906
Pages
57
Section
From Field and Study
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Pacific Eider in Washington
The Pacific eider (Somateria v-nigra) has been reported from the vicinity of Tacoma off and on this winter since early December. Only one has been shot, this being reported to me as “looking like a hen mallard, only much larger with a heavier bill”; evidently a female. I went down to the Nisqually flats, 18 miles from Tacoma, on January 6, and had the good fortune to see a flock of seven eiders, besides a pair of females. The latter I approached within 80 yards as they were feeding in a slough, but they were very wild, and I failed to secure any.
J. H. BOWLES
Tacoma, Wash.
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