GOLDEN-EYE 



GAR ROT- RATTLE-WINGS. 



PLATE CXCIX. FIGURE II. 



Anas clangula, ..... LINNAEUS. 

 Clangula glaucion, .... DRESSER. 



Clangula chrysophthalma, . . . MACGILLIVRAY. 



THE Golden-Eye is a common and regular winter visitor, 

 breeding generally in the northern regions, in the vicinity 

 of lakes and rivers, and marshes. The Laplanders place 

 boxes with holes in them in the trees in these localities for 

 the birds to build in, and thus procure the eggs, for the cotes 

 are sure to be resorted to for the purpose of laying in. The 

 nest is made of rushes and other herbage, lined with down. 

 Mr. Hewitson found one in a hole in a tree, ten or twelve 

 feet from the ground. 



The eggs are of a greyish-green hue, and from ten to 

 fourteen in number. 



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