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Nyroca leucophthaJmos, Gray, p. 201 ; Gould, v. pi. 21. 



Fuligula ferrugiriea, Harting, p. 64. 



Nyroca ferruginea, Dresser, vi. p. 581. 



The Ferruginous Duck, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 238. 



Ferruginea = of tte colour of iron-rust, ferrugo, from ferrum = iron. 



A spring straggler to the eastern coasts of England, and 

 once met with in Scotland. It inhabits the temperate and 

 southern portions of the Palaearctic Region. 



Genus CLANGULA, Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 564. 



Clangula, diminutive of Clanga ; (cXayyj? = clangor, any sharp sound, espe- 

 cially the scream of Cranes. 



Clangula glaucion. GOLDENEYE. 



Anas Glaucion, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 201 (1766). 

 Anas Clangula, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 201 (1766). 



Clangula chrysophthalma, Macg. v. p. 174. 



Anas clangula, Naum. xii. p. 162. 



Fuligula vulgaris, Hewitson, p. 435. 



Clangula glaucion, Gr ay, p. 202; Gould, v. pi. 31; Harting, 



p. 66; Dresser, vi. p. 595. 

 Fuligula clangula, Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 368 ; id. ed. 3, iii. 



p. 371. 

 The Golden Eye, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 267. 



Glaucion .= yXavKiov, a grey-eyed water-bird in Atbenaeus, 395 0. ; from 

 yXavrcos = bluish-grey. Generally Latinized into glaucium by pre-Linnean 

 writers, and always (for Chelidonium Glaucium} by botanists, including Linnaeus. 



A winter visitant to the United Kingdom, especially the 

 northern districts. It inhabits the Northern Palsearctic and 

 Nearctic Regions. 



Clangula islandica, BAEEOW'S GOLDENEYE. 

 Anas islandica, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 541 (1788). 



Anas islandica, Naum. xii. p. 186. 

 Clangula islandica, Dresser, vi. p. 603. 



Islandica = of Iceland. 



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