CLANGULA. 



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The female has the head and neck brown, the feathers edged with ferru- 

 ginous; chin white, but less extended ; breast brown, the feathers margined 

 with pale chestnut brown; abdomen dull white; edge of the wing white; 

 secondaries white, tipped with black. 



Length.— i^ to IS inches; wing 772. 



Hah. — Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Afganistan and throughout India, except 

 South India and Ceylon. Occurs in Nepaul, Gilgit and Eastern and Western 

 Turkistan, in which latter it breeds. " In the lakes of Cashmere,*' Hume says, 

 •* they breed most abundantly, and that boat-loads of their eggs are brought to 

 market at Srinuggar.'' The White Eye affects chiefly jheels with thick cover, 

 where they sport about in the early morning, afternoon and at night, retiring 

 during the middle of day. It is not sought for by sportsmen, being very 

 indifferent eating at the best of times. 



Clangula glaucion. The Golden Eye. 



240. Clangula glaucion {Lmn.), Bodd. P.E. 802; Gould, B. Eur. 

 pi. 329; Murray, Hdbk., ZooL, ^c, Sind, p. 238; z<f., Verf, Zool., Sind, 

 p. 296; Hume, Game Birds, iii. p. 285 ; Murray, Avif. Brit. Ind.'n. p. 702, 

 No. 1404. — The Golden Eye or Garrot. 



Head and upper part of the neck glossy deep green when seen in a light 

 reflected at a small angle, otherwise purple ; throat brownish black ; between 

 the lateral basal sinus of the upper mandible and the cheek is an ovate patch 

 of white, ten-twelfths across in its greatest diameter; the lower neck all round, 

 the breast, forepart of the abdomen, sides, and lower tail coverts white; but 

 the axillary feathers and lower wing coverts are blackish brown, and the edges 

 of the posterior elongated feathers on the sides black ; the back and the 

 inner and posterior scapulars are black ; the outer scapulars white with the 

 margins black; the tail is deep brown, tinged with grey; the sides of the rump 

 and tibiae dusky-grey, and the feathers on the hind part of the abdomen dusky 

 at the base ; wing brownish black, with a large patch of white, which in- 

 cludes many of the small coverts, several of the secondary coverts, and eight 

 of the secondary quills ; these white secondary coverts have their basal half 

 black, but that colour is not apparent when the feathers are laid down. 

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