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AVES. 
the point; inner sides of both mandibles with pectoral mar¬ 
gins ; irides bright yellow; legs and feet red. Eighteen inches 
long. Inhabits Europe. 
Section II—Hind toe furnished with a loose membrane. 
Anas mollisisma. — The Eider Duck. 
Plate LXV. fig. 2. 
Cheeks, chin, upper part of the neck, back, and lesser wing- 
coverts, white; secondaries and greater wings-coverts brown; 
front of the neck and breast buff colour; abdomen, rump, and 
tail-coverts, brown-black; tail-feathers gray-brown; upper part 
of the head velvet-black, divided behind by a white band point¬ 
ing downwards; auricles green and shining; bill yellow horn 
colour. Twenty-two inches long. Inhabits Europe. 
Anas clangula. — The Golden-Eye. 
Plate LXV. fig. 5. 
Bill bluish-black; head slightly crested, which with the upper 
part of the neck, is iridescent-black, reflecting dark green 
and violet; a white spot under the eye; back, first fourteen 
quills, with all the outside margin of the wing, black ; middle 
of the wing white ; tail dark brown ; legs reddish-ochre colour. 
Seventeen inches long. Inhabits the Arctic regions. 
Genus 14.—MERGUS.— Linnceus. 
Generic Character. —Bill of medium size, or long in some 
species, slender, shape of an elongated cone, and nearly cylin¬ 
drical, broad at the base ; point of upper mandible considerably 
hooked, and provided with a flat nail; edges of both mandibles 
furnished with a row of reflected serri; nostrils lateral, open, 
situated near the middle of the bill; legs short, strong, placed far 
back; feet with three anterior toes webbed to their points; 
hallux thick, articulated high on the tarsus, and not resting on 
the ground ; wings of medium length, first quill the longest of 
the whole. 
Mergus merganser. — The Goosander. 
Plate LXV. fig. 6. 
Head crested, which with the upper part of the neck, back. 
