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As a very rare migrant this species occurs along the coast 

 at the same seasons as the two Scaup Ducks, and it is very likely 

 associated with them in the same flocks. In general habits, 

 nest, eggs etc. it resembles the Lesser Scaup. Mr. Board man 

 once found this species breeding near Calais, but it has not 

 been known to nest there lately. The eggs are said to measure 

 2.23 X 1.57, (Ridgway). 



Genus CLANGULA Leach. 



151. Clangula dangula americana (Bonap.). American 

 Golden-eye; Whistler. 



Plumage of adult male : loral patch circular, measuring less than half an 

 inch in height along bill, white in color; head and upper neck glossy green- 

 ish black ; neck, breast, belly, speculum, scapulars and exposed wing coverts 

 white ; speculum without black bar ; otherwise plumage black. Plumage of 

 females and immature : speculum white without black band ; breast, belly, 

 tips of wing coverts, and fore neck white; head and throat grayish umber; 

 upper back, breast and sides gray. Wing 8.80 to 9.30 in males and 8.00 to 

 8.50 in females ; bill from tip to extreme of frontal angle 1.90 in male, 1.70 

 in female ; tarsus about 1.50 in male and 1.45 in female. The shape of the 

 loral patch is sufficient to distinguish males of the two species, also the dif- 

 ference in color of the head, while the female Am. Golden-eye can be best 

 told from the female of Barrow's Golden-eye by its lacking the dusky bar 

 across the speculum, the difference in color of the head, the relation of nos- 

 tril to rest of bill and a difference in the slope of the forehead, the feature 

 last mentioned being best perceptible in specimens in the flesh. The pres- 

 ence or absence of the dark wing bar is generally sufficient to determine the 

 species. 



Geog. Dist. — North America, breeding from North Dakota and Maine 

 northward ; wintering from Maine south to Cuba. 



County Records. — Androscoggin; common migrant, (Johnson). Aroos- 

 took ; local summer resident, (Knight). Cumberland ; winter resident, com- 

 mon, arrives in November, (Brown, C. B. P. p. 32). Hancock; common fall 

 and spring along the coast, a few nest on inland ponds and streams, (Knight). 

 Kennebec; (Dill). Knox; winter, (Rackliff), Oxford; breeds, (Maynard, 

 L. B. C. Co. N. H. & 0. Co. Me. p. 29). Penobscot ; quite common fall and 

 spring, some nest about the isolated ponds and lakes, a few remain about the 

 swift open water at the Bangor dam and in similar places through some 

 winters, (Knight). Piscataquis; common, breeds, (Homer). Sagadahoc; 

 quite common in winter, (Spinney). Somerset; common migrant, a male 



