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" Males in first nuptial dress have less white on the scapulars, the wliite 

 on the hind lower neck is mottled with lirown, as is also the white sjiot at 

 the hase of the bill. 



Males in moulting plumage resemble adult females, except that they 

 retain the white wing of the adult male. 



" Young in Down are dark brown on the upper parts, and paler brown 

 on the breast and flanks, shading into white on the throat and into pale 

 grey on the belly." {Salradori.) 



Distribution. — This is a northern form of duck, breeding in 

 Northern Europe and Asia. In \vinter it migrates to Southern 

 Europe, and rarely only into e.xtreme North Africa. In Asia it 

 occurs as far south as Persia, China, and Japan, and as a straggler 

 enters Northern India and Southern China. The American form is 

 separated from our lurd under the name of G. c. americana. The 

 occurrence of the Golden-eye in India, as I have already said, is 

 only as a straggler, and a very rare one too ; all the notes as to its 

 occurrence in 'Game-birds' are that Sir A. Barnes got it on the Indus 

 in Sind nearly sixty years ago, and that Dr. Bonavia obtained a fine 

 male about 1870, which was captured by fowlers near Lucknow. 



After ' Game-Birds " was written, Hume evidently got other 

 specimens, for in the British Museum are two specimens got by 

 E. N. Stoker, which were presented by Hume with the rest of his 

 collection. These two birds w'ere obtained, one at Hassanpur, and 

 one at Ghazi, both in the month of December. There is so little 

 on record about this duck in India, and ' Stray Feathers ' is now so 

 hard to get, that I reproduce the greater part of Stoker's notes on 

 his specimen. 



" I have now to record shooting near Ghazi, on the Indus, a 



female Golden 'Eiye {Clangidarjlaucion). I saw one drake and four 



ducks, but unfortunately only succeeded in getting one of the latter. 



"This measured: length 15'75 inches, expanse '26'5, tail .3'G6, 



bill from gape 1'66. Weight 1 lb. 5 ozs. 



" The irides were a bright pale-yellow ; the feet bright yellowish- 

 orange, with dark lilackish webs ; bill black at base and tip, with a 

 medial yellow band about 0'25 mm. in width." 



In the same letter, in a P.S., he continues : — 



" Since this was written I have shot another Golden Eye, a bird 

 of the year. ... A third bird, precisely like this second, was 

 shot by an officer here, but hitherto the drake has resisted all our 

 attempts to assassinate him. 



