SPECIES 22. ANAS CLANGULA. 



GOLDEN EYE, 

 [Plate LXVIL Fig. 6.] 



Le Garrot, Buiss. vi, p. 416. 27. pi. 37. fg. 2. BUFF, ix, p. 222. 

 Arct. Zool. No. 486. LATH. Syn. in, p. 535. PEALE'S Mu- 

 seum, No. 2921.* 



THIS Duck is well known in Europe, and in various regions 

 of the United States, both along the seacoast and ahout the lakes 

 and rivers of the interior. It associates in small parties, and 

 may easily be known by the vigorous whistling of its wings, as 

 it passes through the air. Jt swims and dives well; but seldom 

 walks on shore, and then in a waddling awkward manner. 

 Feeding chiefly on shell fish, small fry, &c. their flesh is less 

 esteemed than that of the preceding. In the United States they 

 are only winter visitors, leaving us again in the month of April, 

 being then on their passage to the north to breed. They are 

 said to build, like the Wood Duck, in hollow trees. 



The Golden-eye is nineteen inches long, and twenty-nine in 

 extent, and weighs on an average about two pounds; the bill is 

 black, short, rising considerably up in the forehead; the plumage 

 of the head and part of the neck is somewhat tumid, and of a 

 dark green with violet reflections, marked near the corner of 

 the mouth with an oval spot of white; the irides are golden yel- 

 low; rest of the neck, breast, and whole lower parts white, ex- 

 cept the flanks, which are dusky; back and wings black; over 



* Le Garrot, PL Enl. 802.Morrillon, Arcl. Zool n, p. 300, F.Br. Zool. 

 Mo. 276, 277. LATH. Supp. n, p. 535, JVb. 26. Ind. Orn. p. 867, Mb. 87; 

 A. gtoncion, Id. p. 868, JVb. 88. GMEL. Syst. i, p. 523, JVb. 23; Id. p. 525, JVb. 

 26. TEMM. Man. d'Orn. i, p. 870. BEWICK, u, ;>. 330. PEALE'S Museum, 

 2922, female. 



