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in autumn. They feed chiefly on mollusca, for which they dive, 

 and in most respects resemble the Scoters in their habits. To 

 this genus may perhaps be referred the Western Duck, or Stel- 

 ler's Duck, which differs, however, in having the scapulars 

 and inner secondaries recurvate, like those of the Eiders and 

 Ice-Ducks, to which it also seems closely allied. 



258. CLANGULA STELLERI. STELLER'S GARROT. 



Male about eighteen inches long, with the bill black ; the 

 head, part of the upper neck, a band on the lower neck in 

 front, the scapulars and lower wing-coverts, white ; the throat, 

 a broad band on the neck, the upper parts, abdomen, lower 

 tail-coverts, and quills black ; inner secondaries recurved, 

 black on the inner, white on the outer web ; lower neck and 

 breast light yellowish-red. Female variegated with dusky 

 and light red. 



Male, 18. 



A single individual of this species, in the Norwich Mu- 

 seum, was shot in February 1830, near Yarmouth. 



Anas dispar, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. 535. Anas dispar, Lath. 

 Ind. Ornith. ii. 866. Anas dispar, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 

 iv. 547. Stelieria dispar, Pied Stelleria, MacGillivray, Brit. 

 Birds, v. 



259. CLANGULA CHRYSOPHTHALMA. GOLDEN-EYED GARROT. 



Male about nineteen inches long, with the bill black, an 

 inch and a third in length, with the frontal sinus acute ; the 

 head and upper neck glossy deep green, with purple gloss ; a 

 large ovate white spot on each side between the cheek and 

 the bill, below the level of the eye ; the lower neck all 

 round, with the breast, sides, and abdomen white, the elon- 

 gated feathers of the latter edged with black ; upper parts 

 black ; the outer scapulars white, some of them edged with 

 black ; on the wing a large, undivided, transverse white space, 

 including many of the smaller coverts, some of the secondary 

 coverts, and eight secondary quills ; feet orange, webs dusky. 

 Female much smaller, with the bill brown, toward the end 

 yellowish ; the head and upper neck dull reddish-brown, the 

 lower neck grey ; the upper parts grey, darker behind, the 

 lower white, but with the sides and part of the abdomen 

 brownish-grey, seven of the secondary quills and their coverts 

 white ; feet yellowish-brown. Young similar to the female, 

 but with the bill and feet darker, as are the tints of the plu- 



