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black, tinged with green ; the lower neck white ; white 

 feathers intermixed with black before the eyes ; a white patch 

 on the wing, but variegated with black, the tips only of the 

 feathers being of the former colour. In the next stage the 

 feathers of the head are elongated, and the colours nearly 

 completed ; but the white less extended on the scapulars and 

 wings ; the tips of the white secondary coverts being also 

 still dusky. 



Remarks. — On comparing British with European, and 

 both with American skins, I am unable to detect any essen- 

 tial difference, individuals from the one continent differing 

 from individuals from the other only in the same degree as 

 British specimens differ from each other. I have also ex- 

 amined the digestive and respiratory organs of an American 

 adult male, and find them to correspond with those of the 

 many British males which I have dissected. On what 

 grounds the Prince of Canino institutes an American species, 

 Clangula Americana, differing from our Clangula chrysoph- 

 thalma, or C. Glaucion, as he names it, I, of course, cannot 

 conjecture. 



The specimens described by Dr. Richardson or Mr. Swain- 

 son, in the Fauna Boreali-Americana, under the name of 

 Clangula Barrovii, present no other differences, that are not 

 met with in undoubted specimens of Clangula chrysoj)h- 

 thalma, than that of having a semilunar white band before 

 the eye, in place of an ovate or oblong band, and a transverse 

 black band on the white of the wing, arising either from the 

 shortening of the white feathers covering the black -based 

 secondary coverts, or from the elongation of the black upon 

 these latter. Now, all the specimens hitherto obtained, and 

 they are very few in number, have been killed in summer ; and 

 whether the oval spot on the head be at that season usually 

 converted into a crescent-shaped spot, or whether the indivi- 

 duals described are merely such as have the spot of an un- 

 usual form, or lastly whether the crescent-spotted birds really 

 form a species distinct from those with roundish, oval, or 

 oblong spots, I think can be determined only by more ex- 

 tended observation of the Garrots in their summer haunts. 



