184 FULIGULIN.E. CLANGULA. 



mage, the white on the wing traversed by a band of dusky, 

 the tips of the white secondary coverts being of that colour. 



Male, 19, 32, 9, l^V, ITS, 2 T %, T V Female, 16, 28. 



This species makes its appearance in October, disperses 

 over the country, resorting to lakes, pools, rivers, and estu- 

 aries, and departs in April. It feeds on larvae, insects, and 

 mollusca, sometimes small fishes and Crustacea. Although 

 its flesh is dark coloured, and not well flavoured, it is often 

 seen in the markets. The young and females are greatly 

 more numerous, in proportion to the males, in the southern 

 parts of Britain, and in the northern, flocks are sometimes 

 seen composed entirely of males. In the arctic regions, 

 where it breeds, the nest is said to be formed of grass and 

 herbage, and placed on the ground, or sometimes in the cre- 

 vice of a rock, or the hole of a tree. The female plucks the 

 down from her breast to cover the eggs, which are numerous, 

 elliptical, smooth, and of a greenish tint. 



Golden-Eyed Duck. Gowdy Duck. Pied Wigeon. 

 Whistler. 



Anas Clangula and Glaucion, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 201. 

 Anas Clangula and Glaucion, Lath. Ind. Ornith. ii. 867. 

 Anas Clangula, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. ii. 870. Clangula 

 chrysophthalma, Golden-Eyed Garrot, MacGillivray, Brit. 

 Birds, v. 



260. CLANGULA HISTRIONICA. HARLEQUIN GARROT. 



Male about seventeen inches long, with the bill yellowish- 

 brown, the feet greyish-blue, the webs dusky ; the head, up- 

 per neck, and upper parts of the body, dusky greyish-blue ; a 

 triangular white patch before the eye, a round spot behind 

 the ear, a longitudinal mark on the neck, a narrow collar 

 about its middle, a band across its lower fore part, some of 

 the scapulars, the tips of the secondaries, and a spot on the 

 side of the rump, white ; a band of white and light red over 

 the eye to the nape ; the space between the white bands on 

 the neck and the fore part of the breast, light greyish-blue, 

 the hind part tinged with brown, the sides light red, the fea- 

 thers under and above the tail bluish-black ; all the white 

 markings on the head and neck edged with black. Female 

 about fifteen inches long, with the bill and feet dull greyish- 

 blue, the general colour of the plumage greyish -brown, lighter 

 beneath ; the fore part of the head brownish-white, and a 

 roundish-white spot behind the ear. Young similar to the 



