512 ORNITHOLOGY AND OOLOGY. 



Description. 



Head and neck all round bluish-violet, Occasionally with green or purplish re- 

 flection; a large white patch anterior to the ej-e, occupj-ing the entire side of the bill, 

 and running up in a point on the forehead; lower neck and under parts generally 

 white; a narrow white patch on the middle wing coverts; the greater coverts black, 

 tipped -with white, which is continuous with the white secondaries, but separated 

 from that on the middle coverts; anterior scapulars white, edged externally with 

 black; the posterior ones black, with white central streak; rest of upper parts black, 

 ns are the sides behind, and including the tibia; long ftathers of the flank white, 

 tipped and edged above with black. 



Length, twenty-two and fifty one-hundredths inches; wing, nine and fifty one- 

 htindredths; tarsus, one and fifty-eight one-hundredths inches; commissure, one and 

 eighty one-hundredths inches. 



Ilab. — Iceland, and northern parts of America. In winter, not rare on the St. 

 Lawrence. 



This species is found in considerable numbers on our 

 north-eastern coast, in the winter months. It breeds in tlie 

 arctic portions of the continent, but has all the other habits 

 of the succeeding species. 



BUCEPHALA AMERICANA. — Bnird. 

 The Golden Eye ; Whistle Wing. 



Anas dangula, Wilson. Am. Om., VIII. (1814) 62. 



Fuligula {Clangula) clangula, Bonaparte. Syn., (1828) 393. Nutt. Man., II. 

 441. 



Fuligula clangula, Audubon. Om. Biog., IV. (1838) 318. lb., Birds Am., VI. 

 ,1843) 362. * 



Clangula Americana, Bonaparte. Comp. Li.st (1838). Eyt. Mon. Anat. (1838) 

 167. 



Desceiption. 



Bill black ; head and upper part of neck glossy-green ; the under surface opaque 

 velvety purplish-black; an elliptical patch along the base of upper mandible ante- 

 rior to the eye, lower part of neck, under parts generally, and sides, middle and 

 greater wing coverts, the innermost secondaries (and tertials, except the innermost 

 three or four), white; the white on the wing is in a continuous patch, although there 

 is a concealed black bar on the bases of the greater coverts; the inner scapulars are 

 white, margined externally with black ; posteriorly, however, they are black, streaked 

 centrally with white; the inner scapulars and tertials, and the whole back, i-urap, 

 and lesser wing coverts, are black; the primaries and tail black, with a hoary gloss; 

 the under side of quills and lower greater coverts are plumbeous-gray; the rest of 

 the under wing and the axillars are sooty-brown ; the long white feathers of the 

 flanks are edged superiorly with black ; iris golden yellow. 



Female with the head and neck above smifF-brown, without white patch; white 

 of wing less extended; the middle coverts only touched with white; there is a ten- 



