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by Holingshead |, and Lcland \. The birds on being difturbed, 

 rife, as it were, in battalia, and darken tbe very air, except the 

 Coulternebs, and the beautiful Sheldrakes, Cuthbert Ducks, and Cormo- 

 rants, which take refuge in their fubterrene or cavernous retreats, 

 if they can reach them. 



9. The Golden Eye (i), fo called from .the iris of the eyes, being 

 of a beautiful yellow, like burnifhed gold ; and called by the 

 Italians, ^uattroOchii, i. e. four eyes, from a round white fpot at 

 each angle of the beak, is not unfrequent about the -Frfrw-iilands 

 and on the fea-coaft. It is fhort, and thick bodied ; the head 

 large, of a changeable colour, according to the lights it is viewed 

 in, black, purple, and a grafs-green, glofly and {hi n ing, like 

 filk. The neck is fliort, of a lilvery white, as are the moulders, 

 breaft and belly. The wings are black and white., ^ariegated in 

 a remarkable manner; the middle feathers white, nnd the exte- 

 rior and interior ones black, both in the cover and the fail-fea- 

 thers. The lower part of the back is black ; the tail of the fame 

 colour, three inches and a half long, compofed of fixteen fea- 

 thers. The legs are fhort and robuft; of a deep yellow. It 

 meafures between the tips of the wings, extended, twenty-feven 

 inches. The bird here defcribed was fhot on the fea-coaft, near 

 Druridge, and prefented to me. 



10. The Bernacle (k) is frequent near the river Tiveed, and 

 Holy IJlaad, in winter. It is confiderably fmaller than a goofc, 



f Hoi. Chro. Vol. i. J Lei. Itin. Vol. 6. p. 60. 



(1) Glaucion. Glaucus. Belion. Av. Icon. 33. 6. Glaucion BELLONII. Aldr. Or. 1.13. 

 0.38. Will, Orn. p. 9.8 1. Anas oculorum iridibus flavisj capite grifeoj collar! albo. 

 Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 37. n. 104. 



(k) Anfer Scoxicus verus Bernicl.i Bcrnicla f. Bernacla. Will. 



Orn. p. 274. , Raj. Av. p. 137. Bernicla. BERNACI.E. ScorcH-GoosE. CLAKE-GOOSE. 

 Char let, Av. p. 103. n. 4. Anas capita colloque nigris. Linn, Faun. Suec. p. 32. n. 91. 



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