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Reservoir, near Otley, Yorkshire, and reared four 

 young ones. Another pair bred on the margin of 

 Swinsty Reservoir; the male bird v^^as shot, and is 

 now in the collection of the Leeds Naturalists' 

 Club {Zool, 1895, p. 449). 



Daniel, in the Supplement to his " Rural Sports," 

 p. 627, has recorded the singular fact that in March 

 1810 no fev^^er than 170 Golden-eyes were taken in a 

 flounder-net in the River Eden, running into St. 

 Andrew's Bay, Fifeshire. They had alighted below 

 the net, and on the flowing of the tide were carried, 

 from the contraction of the channel, with great im- 

 petuosity into the net, where they were found the 

 next morning drowned. 



The weight of an adult Golden-eye is from 2 lbs. 

 to 2 lbs. 6 oz. The Morillon of old writers is the young 

 of this species ; but the Morillon of Belon, described 

 by Willughby as having its bill cut on the edge 

 like a saw, legs and feet red on the inside, and its 

 head ferruginous, is apparently a female Goosander. 



Barrow's Golden-eye [Clangula islandica), a 

 native of Iceland, Greenland, and Arctic America, is 

 reported to have been met with once at the mouth 

 of the Derwent {Zool, 1864, p. 9038), but it is ex- 

 tremely doubtful whether the species was correctly 

 identified. (See Newton, "Diet. Birds," p. 369.) 

 Robert Gray, in his " Birds of the West of Scot- 

 land," p. 396, writes: "For many years I have 

 carefully watched for the appearance of Clangula 

 islandica (Gmelin) in the Outer Hebrides, but with- 

 out success." It is a larger bird than our well- 



