eider-duck

The wild eider-duck makes her nest and lays her eggs in the huts of the

Friends and Helpers Sarah J. Eddy

It was their delight to see which could excel the other in the management of their fishing _jagts_, those square-sailed slow craft, and for days they would cruise about the haunts of the eider-duck -- not to kill it, for that is forbidden, the bird being too valuable, but to filch from the sides of its nest the lovely down which the birds pluck from their own breasts.

Harper's Young People, January 20, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly Various

The snow-geese are the first to arrive; next come the common and eider-duck; after them the great northern black-and-red-throated divers; and last of all the pin-tail and the long-tail ducks.

The Ontario Readers Third Book Ontario. Ministry of Education

Eider-down consists of the soft, fine feathers growing on the breast of the eider-duck, great numbers of which frequent the coast and lakes of

Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania Jewett Castello Gilson

She journeyed, for instance, to the island of Vidoe, the cliffs of which are frequented by the eider-duck.

The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous

The eider-duck, so much prized for its down, is found in considerable numbers.

Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory Volume II. (of 2) John M'lean

EI DER DOWN, fine, soft feathers from the eider-duck.

Sanders' Union Fourth Reader Charles W. Sanders

At this exact moment, the Keeper of the Robes sends in the eider-duck skin dress, with its cloud-like curving feather-scales of kingfisher green.

Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

At this exact moment, the Keeper of the Robes sends in the eider-duck skin dress, with its cloud-like curving feather-scales of kingfisher green.

Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

The eider-duck has laid her eggs, the tern doth hatch her young,

The Sea Fowler 1895