120 GOLDEN EYE. 



like particles, which are so remarkable upon the back and scapulars of 

 the male, are wanting in the female. 



In young males the head and upper part of the neck are purplish 

 brown, in some the chestnut band of the neck is obscure. 



The stomachs of those specimens which I dissected were filled with 

 gravel and vegetable food. The trachea, according to the observations 

 of Mr. Bonaparte, resembles that of the fuligula. 



This species is in no respect so shy and cunning as the Scaup Duck, 

 and is more easily shot. — Gr. Ord. 



Species XXII. ANAS CLANGULA. 



GOLDEN EYE. 



[Plate LXVII. Fig. 6.] 



Le Garrot, Briss. vi., p. 416, 27, pi. 37, fig. 2.— Buff, ix., p. 222.— ^rc^. Zooi. No. 

 486. — Lath. Syn. in., p. 535.* 



This Duck is well known in Europe, and in various regions of the 

 United States, both along the seacoast and about the lakes and rivers 

 of the interior. It associates in small parties, and may easily be known 

 by the vigorous whistling of its wings, as it passes through the air. It 

 swims and dives well ; but seldom walks on shore, and then in a wad- 

 dling awkward manner. Feeding chiefly on shell fish, small fry, &c., 

 their flesh is less esteemed than that of the preceding. In the United 

 States they are only winter visitors, leaving us again in the month of 

 April, being then on their passage to the north to breed. They are 

 said to build, like the Wood Duck, in hollow trees. 



The Golden-eye is nineteen inches long, and twenty-nine in extent, 

 and weighs on an average about two pounds ; the bill is black, short, 

 rising considerably up in the forehead ; the plumage of the head and 

 part of the neck is somewhat tumid, and of a dark green with violet re- 

 flections, marked near the corner of the mouth with an oval spot of 

 white ; the irides are golden yellow ; rest of the neck, breast, and whole 

 lower parts white, except the flanks, which are dusky ; back and wings 

 black ; over the latter a broad bed of white extends from the middle of 

 the lesser coverts to the extremity of the secondaries ; the exterior scapu- 

 lars are also white ; tail hoary brown ; rump and tail-coverts black ; legs 



* Le Garrot, PI. Enl. 802.— Morrilkm, Arct. Zool. ii., p. 300, F.—Br. Zool. No. 

 276, 277.— Lath. Supp. ii., p. 535, No. 26.— 7/jd. Orn. p. 867, No. 87 ; A. glancion, 

 Id. p. 868, No. 88.— Gmel. Syst. i., p. 523, No. 23 ; Id. p. 525, No. 26.— Temm. 

 Man. d' Orn. i., p. 870. — Bewick, ii., p. 330. 



