MERGIM;. 415 



GENUS, Clangula. 

 Clangula glaucium, Lin. 



.C. glaucion, Lin. Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, 

 p. 296 ; Game Birds of India, Vol. Ill, p. 285. 



THE GOLDEN-EYE OR GARROT. 



?. Length, 16'5 to 19; expanse, 28 to 32 ; wing, 8'6 to 

 9-35 ; tail, 3'3 to 4'1 ; tarsus, 1-41 to 1'65 ; bill from gape, 1'2 to 

 1-4; weight, 2 to 2} Ibs. 



?. Length, 157 to 16'5; expanse, 26'3 to 28; wing, 7*5 to 

 8-25 ; tail, 3 to 3'4 ; tarsus, 1'22 to T35 ; bill from gape, 1*12 to 

 1-19 ; weight, l T 7 j to 1U Ibs. 



Bill, in old males, bluish or greenish-black, duskier and duller 

 colored in old females and young ; nail black ; irides vary from 

 orange-yellow to pale yellow. 



Male : Head and upper part of the neck deep glossy green, 

 in some lights purple ; throat brownish-black ; a patch of white 

 between the upper mandible and cheek ; lower neck all round, 

 breast, forepart of the abdomen, sides, and lower tail-coverts, 

 white ; axillary feathers and lower wing-coverts blackish-brown ; 

 edges of posterior elongated feathers on the sides black ; back, 

 inner and posterior scapulars, black ; outer scapulars white with 

 black margins ; tail deep brown, tinged with grey ; the sides of 

 the rump and tibia dusky-grey ; feathers on the hind-part of the 

 abdomen, dusky at the base. 



Female : Head and upper neck umber-brown ; lower neck all 

 round dull ash-grey, the feathers terminally edged paler ; lower 

 parts white, but sides of the body, rump, and part of the abdomen, 

 grey ; axillaries arid lower wing-coverts brownish-grey ; back and 

 scapulars deep ashy -grey, shading to black on the hind-back ; 

 tail dark-brown, tinged with grey ; smaller wing-coverts deep 

 grey, many of them tipped pale grey ; primaries, their coverts, 

 four outer secondaries, and five inner, with their coverts, brownish- 

 black ; the other secondaries pure white, as on their coverts, 

 except at the base. 



Two specimens only have been recorded from India ; one of 

 them was obtained 45 years ago by Sir A. Burnes, on the 

 Indus. 



FAMILY, Mergidae. 



Bill straight, narrow, cylindrical, the tip well bent over ; the 

 edges of the mandibles armed with strong teeth pointing back- 

 wards ; nostrils median, longitudinal ; tarsus short, set far 

 backwards ; feet large, hind-toe lobed ; wings moderate ; tail 

 wedge-shaped, of 1 6 or 18 feathers ; form lengthened and flat- 

 tened ; head more or less crested. 



GENUS, Mergus, Lin. 



The characters are the same as those of the family. 



