GOLDEN EYE 



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THE GOLDEN EYE. 



Anas clangula, Golden Eye Duck, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 253. 



,, ,, ,, ,, ,, Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, ,, ,, ,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 381. 



,, glaucion, The Morillon, ,, ,, ,, ,, 385. 



Clangula vulgaris, Golden Eye, Flem. Brit. An. p. 120. 



,, ,, Common ,, ,, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol.ii. p. 367. 



,, chrysopthalmos. Golden Eye Garrot, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 245. 



,, vulgaris ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. i. 



Anas clangula, Canard Garrot, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 870. 



The Golden Eye is another species of Duck, which visits 

 this country in small flocks every winter, and is well known 

 on most parts of our coast, particularly the females and 

 young birds of the year, which are much more numerous, 

 and more easily procured than adult males. These birds 

 resort to, and feed in, the estuaries, or at a short distance 



