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^ aud 9 ; but iu none can tlie bird be confounded with any but C. islandica (which sec). 

 DuckUngs in down dark sooty-brown above; spotted with white; cheeks and throat white; 

 lower parts dingy whitish, shaded across breast and along sides. Length 17.00-20.00; extent 

 27.00-82.00; w^ng 8.00-9.00 ; tail 

 3.00-4.00; tarsus 1.30-1.50; mid- 

 dle toe and claw 2.50; bill 1.30 

 along culinen, about 2.00 along 

 gape, 0.90-1.05 deep and 0.75- 

 0.85 wide at base ; nail 0.25 wide. 

 9 smaller than $ — about at the 

 minimum of the dimensions just 

 given. North America at large, 

 resident northerly or only forced 

 S. from its summer home by freez- 

 ing of the waters ; a common win- 

 ter Duck of the U. S., and some- 

 what farther S., breeding largely 



in high latitudes, N. to the limit '^ 'i^: 



of trees, but also from the nortlicrn ,-- 



borders of the U. S. Nest iu lu.l- ^«» ^^- " An^ericau Golden-eye. (L. A. Fa.-.t.- 



lows of trees, sometimes stumps ; the down lining it very light gray, scarcely paler-centred; 

 eggs indefinitely many, 5 or G to 10-12 or more, 2.20-2.40 X about 1.70, smooth, rather 

 gh)ssy, pale greenish, ranging from dear sea-green to dingy grayish-green, but not buflfy. An 

 expert diver, and very strong flier on its wliistling wings ; very handsome, too, but meat rank 

 and fishy. C glaucium of 2d-4th eds. of the Key, and hardly different from the common 

 European Garrot; but it averages a trifle larger, with a stouter bill, and I am now willing to 

 let it stand as a subspecies. C. americana Bp. 1838. C. c. Americana A. 0. U. Suppl. List, 

 Auk, Jan. 1897, p. 125, No. 151. 



C. islan'dica. (Of Island or Iceland. Fig. 650.) B.\rrow's Golden-eye. Rocky 

 Mountain Garrot. Very similar to the last. Bill with nostrils as before. Head moder- 

 ately puflfy, and with lengthening of coro- 

 nal and occipital feathers into a slight 

 crest. Gloss of head chiefly purple aud 

 violet (pansy- purple). A large wedge- 

 shaped, triangular or crescentic white 

 spot before eye, running up iu a point, 

 applied against whole side of base of bill. 

 Wliite area on wing more or less divided 

 by a dark bar resulting from extension of 

 the dark bases of tlie greater coverts. 

 Averaging larger than tlie last: $ length 

 20.00-22.50; extent 30.00 or more ; wing 

 9.00-10.00; tarsus 1.00; bill relatively 

 shorter than in C. c. aiuciianin, and pro- 

 portionally deeper at base, tlirowing tlie 

 nostrils in a slightly ditft rent relation with 

 measurements of length and depth ; this 

 may be seen on diicct (■omjiari-'^on of specimens, hut is not easily expressed in figures. 9 smaller 

 than (J; wing about 8.50, etc. pjirope; Iceland; Greenland; North America, northerly, in 

 winter S. to New York, Virginia, Illinois, Utah, and Sau Fraiicisco Bay ; breeds from the Gulf 



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Fio. 050. — Barrow's Goldcu-cye. (L. A. Fiierti's.) 



