MERGID A. 415 
Genus, Clangula. 
Clangula glaucium, Lin. 
971bis.—C. glaucion, Lin.—Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, 
p. 296 ; Game Birds of India, Vol. III, p. 285. 
THE GOLDEN-EYE OR GARROT. 
3. Length, 165 to 19; expanse, 28 to 32 ; wing, 86 to 
9°35; tail, 3:3 to 41; tarsus, 1:41 to 1°65; bill from gape, 1:2 to 
14; weight, 2 to 212 lbs. 
?. Length, 15°7 to 16:5; expanse, 26:3 to 28 ; wing, 7°5 to 
8:25 ; tail, 3 to 3-4; tarsus, 1:22 to 1:35; bill from gape, 1:12 to 
1:19; weight, 1y¢ to 144 lbs. 
Bill, in old males, bluish or greenish-black, duskier and duller 
colored in old females and young ; nail black ; irides vary from 
orange-yellow to pale yellow. 
Male: Head and upper part of the neck deep glossy green, 
in some lights purple ; throat brownish-black ; a patch of white 
between the upper mandible and cheek ; lower neck all round, 
breast, forepart of the abdomen, sides, and lower tail-coverts, 
white; axillary feathers and lower wing-coverts blackish-brown ; 
edges of posterior elongated feathers on the sides black ; back, 
inner and posterior scapulars, black ; outer scapulars white with 
black margins ; tail deep brown, tinged with grey; the sides of 
the rump and tibia dusky-grey ; feathers on the hind-part of the 
abdomen, dusky at the base. 
Female: Head and upper neck umber-brown; lower neck all 
round dull ash-grey, the feathers terminally edged paler ; lower 
parts white, but sides of the body, rump, and part of the abdomen, 
grey; axillaries and lower wing-coverts brownish-grey; back and 
scapulars deep ashy-grey, shading to black on the hind-back ; 
tail dark-brown, tinged with grey; smaller wing-coverts deep 
grey, many of them tipped pale grey ; primaries, their coverts, 
four outer secondaries, and five inner, with their coverts, brownish- 
black; the other secondaries pure white, as on their coverts, 
except at the base. 
T'wo specimens only have been recorded from India; one of 
them was obtained 45 years ago by Sir A. Burnes, on the 
Indus, 
Faminy, Mergide. 
Bill straight, narrow, cylindrical, the tip well bent over; the 
edges of the mandibles armed with strong teeth pointing back- 
wards; nostrils median, longitudinal; tarsus short, set far 
backwards; feet large, hind-toe lobed; wings moderate: tail 
wedge-shaped, of 16 or 18 feathers; form lengthened and flate 
tened ; head more or less crested. 
Genus, Mergus, Lin. 
The characters are the same as those of the family. 
