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islands ; so that in reaching this country, it must cross the 

 whole breadth of Asia and Europe on the one side, or the 

 whole breadth of America and the Atlantic on the other. A 

 single specimen only has reached the country in a wild state, 

 apparently across the breadth of the eastern land, as it was 

 found near Yarmouth. Some insinuations were made, tend- 

 ing to deprive it of the glory of its long flight, upon the 

 ground of its being a tame bird which had escaped ; but its 

 whole air and plumage showed it to be a wild bird, and one 

 not exhausted, but in the very best condition. 



The bill is black, with the nail pointed and hooked ; the 

 irides chestnut ; the head white, with a waving green band 

 across the forehead, and another across the nape. The neck 

 is also white, with a black collar, and the chin black. The 

 general colour of the upper part is black, pied with white. 

 The tertiaries are much produced, and curve gracefully down- 

 wards over the wings ; they are black at the bases and 

 centres, with white margins. The turn of the wing is 

 white, and the quills, which are black in the greater part of 

 their length, have white bases, and a white bar across. The 

 under part is white forwards, and posteriorly brown. The 

 feet are large, strong, and of a leaden colour. The body 

 and neck are also lengthened, and the head slender, the 

 whole having, as already mentioned, the expressions of the 

 other eiders, 



GARROTS (Clangula). 



Bill short and narrow ; feathers on the scapulars produced, 

 distinct, and pointed ; tertiaries crossing the primaries in the 

 closed wing, but not pendent. Two species, both of which 

 are natives of the north, visit the British shores in the winter, 

 one not uncommon, the other rare. 



