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CLANGULA ALBEOLA. THE BUFFEL-HEADED 

 GARROT. 



BUFFEL-HEADED DUCK. SPIRIT DUCK. MARIONETTE. 



Anas Albeola. Linn. Syat. Nat. I. 199. 



Anas Albeola. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 867. 



Fuligula Albeola. Audub. Ornith. Biogr. IV. 217. 



Clangula Albeola. Rich, and Swain's Fauna Bor. Amer. II. 458, 



Clangula Albeola. Buffel-headed Garrot. Jen. Brit. Vert. Anim. 246. 



Clangula Albeola. Bonap. Comp. List, 58. 



Bill light greyish-blue ; feet pale flesh- colour ; head and 

 upper neck deep green and bluish-purple, ivith a broad white 

 band from one cheek to the other over the occiput ; upper 

 parts black ; loiver neck, breast and abdomen, outer scapulars, 

 and a large patcli on the iving, ivhite. Female much smaller, 

 with the bill darker, the feet greyish-blue, the membranes 

 dusky ; head, upper and hind parts of neck, back, and ivings 

 greyish-brown ; lower parts white. 



This species, smaller than the Golden-eyed, but much 

 resembling it in general aspect, though easily distinguish- 

 able, has only in two instances been detected as occurring in 

 Britain, one individual having been procured at Yarmouth, 

 the other in Orkney. In North America it is very plentiful 

 and extensively dispersed, and it is from specimens obtained 

 there that the following description is taken : — 



Male. — Body full, compact, depressed ; neck short and 

 thick ; head rather large, compressed, rounded above. Bill 

 much shorter than the head, higher than broad at the base, 

 gradually depressed and with its breadth moderately dimi- 

 nished to the end, which is rounded. The upper mandible 

 has the lateral sinuses broad and rounded, the upper sinus 



