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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-occki, (four 

 eyes). It is common in Sicily in winter. The Zoological 

 Society have received specimens, sent by Keith Abbott, 

 Esq., from Trebizond ; the Russian naturalists 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 have preserved a 

 female Golden Eye on the canal in St. Jameses Park for 

 the last two years ; she associates 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 



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