376 BIRDS. 



Naum. I, c. 52, f. 77; and the female, An. minuta, 799; Edw. 

 197. (The Harlequin Duck). Ash-coloured; the male fantasti- 

 cally streaked with white; eyebrows and flanks red. Each of the 

 preceding species is occasionally seen in France, but at very long 

 intervals. 

 Then come the Garrots, the common species with a round or square tail. 

 An. clangula, L. ; Le Garrot proprement dit, Enl. 802 ; the 

 young. An. glaueion, L.*, Frisch, 181, 182; Naum. I, c. 55, f, 81, 

 82; Wils. VIII, Ixvii, 6. (The Golden-Eye). White; head, 

 back, and tail, black; a small spot before the eye, and two bands on the 

 wdng, white ; the bill blackish. The female is ash-coloured, with a 

 brown head. The middle of the trachea is considerably dilated, the 

 two arches of the sac, however, preserving their flexibility. It be- 

 comes singularly widened near the bifurcation -}■. 



SoiiATERiA, Leach. 



The Eider Ducks have a longer bill than that of the preceding sub- 

 genus, and ascending more on the forehead, where it is emarginated by 

 an angle of feathers, but still narrower before than at its base. 



An. mollissima; L' Eider, Enl. 208, 209, the adults of both 

 sexes, Mus. Carls. 39; the three years' old young male. Add, Edw. 

 98 ; AYils. VIII, xci, 2, 3 ; Naum. 64, f. 79, 80. (The Eider 

 Duck). Whitish ; calotte, belly, and tail, black ; the female grey, 

 speckled with brown. Celebrated for furnishing us with that va- 

 luable article called eider down]};. 

 After all these distinctions, there remains the 



FuLiGuxA, Leach. 



The Millouins, whose bill is broad and flat, but presents no other pecu- 

 liarity. Several species are found in France, in which all the trachea 

 terminates in nearly similar inflations, forming on the left a partially mem- 

 branous capsule, supported by a frame and ramifications of bone. 



An. ferina, L., and A. rufa, Gm. ; Millouln commun, Enl. 803; 

 Naum. I, c. 58, f. 87, 88; Wils. VIII, xc. 6. (The Red-head). 

 Ash- coloured, finely striated with black ; head and top of the neck 

 red; lower part of the neck and the breast brown; the bill a light 

 lead-colour. Sometimes breeds among the reeds in the ponds of 

 France. Its trachea is of an equal diameter. 



An. rufina, L. ; Mill, huppe, Enl. 928; Naum. I, c. 32, f. 63, 

 64. (The Pochard Duck). Black ; the back brown ; some white 

 on the wing and fiank ; the head red, the feathers on its summit 

 turned up into a tuft ; red bill. From the borders of the Caspian 

 Sea, and occa«ionally driven by the winds as far as France. There 



• Glaueion, the Greek name of a Duck, so called on account of the colour of its 

 eyes. 



t Add, An. albeola, Enl. 948, the same as An. bucephala, Catesb. I, 95; — A?!, bra- 

 ckyplera, Voy. de Freycin. pi. xxxix. 



l Add, A)';, sp.ctnbilis, Sparm. Mus. Carls, II, pi. xxx\-i; Edw. 154; Naum. 40, 

 i; .'53. 59. 



