This brace of ducks was delivered to the Texas A&M biology collection as part of a consignment of Texas mounted wildfowl. The two specimens are very similar, but differ slightly in exact pattern of vermiculations, etc.
They have been indentified as eclipse male Steller's Eiders - and highly unlikely to have been shot in Texas!

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