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employ him, took a great interest in natural history and 

 botany. "While botanizing by the side of the lake near 

 Quickiock, where Golden Eyes breed in great numbers, he 

 saw a Golden Eye drop into the water, and at the same 

 instant a young one appeared ; after watching some time, 

 and seeing the bird fly backwards and forwards from the 

 nest five times, he was enabled to make out that the young 

 bird was held under the bill, but supported by the neck of 

 the parent." 



"West of Scandinavia the Golden Eye is found at the 

 Faroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland ; and is well known 

 and described by the ornithologists of North America. 

 East of Great Britain it is found in winter in Holland and 

 Germany ; on the coast of France, and also, sometimes, in 

 the interior. It visits, though rarely, the lakes of Switzer- 

 land, and has been taken in Provence. M. Savi includes it 

 in his Birds of Italy, and mentions, that from the circum- 

 stance of this Duck having a light-coloured patch in addi- 

 tion to its light-coloured eye on each side of its head, it is, 

 in different parts of that country, called Quattr-occhi, 

 (four eyes). It is common in Sicily in winter. The 

 Zoological Society have received specimens, sent by 

 Keith Abbott, Esq., from Trebizond ; the Russian natu- 

 ralists found it in the vicinity of the Caucasus ; and M. 

 Temminck says that the Golden Eye of Japan is identical 

 with the bird of Europe. 



The Ornithological Society of London retained a female 

 Golden Eye on the canal in St. James's Park for two 

 years; she associated constantly with a male Smew. 



The adult male has the bill bluish-black; the irides 

 golden yellow ; at the base of the upper mandible a round- 

 ish white patch ; head, and sides of the neck, rich glossy 

 green, the feathers on the occiput a little elongated ; chin 

 and throat black ; lower part of the neck all round white ; 



