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See also:EIDER (Icelandic, idur) , a large marine See also:duck, the Somateria mollissima of ornithologists, famous for its down, which, from its extreme lightness and See also:elasticity, is in See also:great See also:request for filling See also:bed-coverlets. This See also:bird generally frequents See also:low rocky islets near the See also:coast, and in See also:Iceland and See also:Norway has See also:long been afforded every encouragement and See also:protection, a See also:fine being inflicted for killing it during the breeding-See also:season, or even for firing a See also:gun near its haunts, while artificial nesting-places are in many localities contrived for its further See also:accommodation. From the care thus taken of it in those countries it has become exceedingly tame at its See also:chief resorts, which are strictly regarded as See also:property, and the taking of eggs or down from them, except by authorized persons, is severely punished by See also:law. In See also:appearance the eider is some-what clumsy, though it flies fast and dives admirably. The See also:female is of a dark reddish-See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown See also:colour barred with brownish-See also:black. The adult male in See also:spring is conspicuous by his pied plumage of See also:velvet-black beneath, and See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white above: a patch of shining See also:sea-See also:green on his See also:head is only seen on See also:close inspection. This plumage he is considered not to acquire until his third See also:year, being when See also:young almost exactly like the female, and it is certain that the birds which have not attained their full See also:dress remain in flocks by themselves without going to the breeding-stations. The See also:nest is generally in some convenient corner among large stones, hollowed in the See also:soil, and furnished with a few bits of dry grass, seaweed or heather. By the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time that the full number of eggs (which rarely if ever exceeds five) is laid the down is added. Generally the eggs and down are
taken at intervals of a few days by the owners of the " eider-See also:fold," and the birds are thus kept depositing both during the whole season; but some experience is needed to ensure the greatest profit from each commodity. Every duck is ultimately allowed to See also:hatch an See also:egg or two to keep up the stock, and the down of the last See also:net is gathered after the birds have See also:left the spot. The See also:story of the See also:drake's furnishing down, after the duck's See also:supply is exhausted is a fiction. He never goes near the nest. The eggs have a strong flavour, but are much relished by both Icelanders and Norwegians. In the Old See also:World the eider breeds in suitable localities from See also:Spitsbergen to the Farne Islands off the coast of Northumberland—where it is known as St See also:Cuthbert's duck. Its See also:food consists of marine animals (molluscs and crustaceans), and hence the young are not easily reared in captivity. The eider of the New World differs somewhat, and has been described as a distinct See also:species (S. dresseri). Though much diminished in See also:numbers by persecution, it is still abundant on the coast of See also:Newfoundland and thence northward. In See also:Greenland also eiders are very plentiful, and it is supposed that three-fourths of the supply of down sent to See also:Copenhagen comes from that See also:country. The limits of the eider's See also:northern range are not known, but the See also:Arctic expedition of 1875 did not meet with it after leaving the Danish settlements, and its See also:place was taken by an allied species, the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king-duck (S. spectabilis), a very beautiful bird which sometimes appears on the See also:British coast. The female greatly resembles that of the eider, but the male has a black See also:chevron on his See also:chin and a See also:bright See also:orange prominence on his forehead, which last seems to have given the species its See also:English name. On the See also:west coast of See also:North See also:America the eider is represented by a species (S. v-nigrum) with a like chevron, but other-See also:wise resembling the See also:Atlantic bird. In the same See also:waters two other fine species are also found (S. fischeri and S. stelleri), one of which (the latter) also inhabits the Arctic coast of See also:Russia and See also:East Finmark and has twice reached See also:England. The Labrador duck (S. labradoria), now See also:extinct, also belongs to this See also:group. (A.
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