376 
BIRDS. 
Naum. I, c. 52, f. 77; and the female, 4n. minuta, 799; Edw. 
197. (The Harlequin Duck). Ash-coloured; the male fantasti- 
cally streaked with white; eyebrows and flanks red. Each of the 
preceding species is occasionally seen in France, but at very long 
intervals. 
Then come the Garrots, the common species with a round or square tail. 
An. clangula, L.; Le Garrot proprement dit, En). 802; the 
young, dn. glaucion, L.*, Frisch, 181, 182; Naum. I, c. 55, f. 81, 
.82; Wils. VIII, Ixvii, 6. (The Golden-Eye). White; head, 
back, and tail, black; a small spot before the eye, and two bands on the 
wing, white; the bill blackish. The female is ash-coloured, with a 
brown head. The middle of the trachea is considerably dilated, the 
two arches of the sac, however, preserving their flexibility. It be- 
comes singularly widened near the bifurcation f. 
SomaTERIA, Leach. 
The Eider Ducks have a longer bill than that of the preceding sub- 
genus, and ascending more on the forehead, where it is emarginated by 
an angle of feathers, but still narrower before than at its base. 
An. mollissima; LL Eider, Fnl. 208, 209, the adults of both 
sexes, Mus. Carls. 39; the three years’ old young male. Add, Edw. 
98; Wils. VIII, xci, 2, 3; Naum. 64, f. 79, 80. . (The Eider 
Duck). Whitish; calotte, belly, and tail, black; the female grey, 
speckled with brown. Celebrated for furnishing us with that va- 
luable article called eider down f. 
After all these distinctions, there remains the 
Fuuicuta, Leach. 
The Millouins, whose bill is broad and flat, but presents no other pecu- 
liarity. Several species are found in France, in which all the trachea 
terminates in nearly similar inflations, forming on the left a partially mem- 
branous capsule, supported by a frame and ramifications of bone. 
An. ferina, L., and A. rufa, Gm.; Millowin commun, Enl. 803; 
Naum. I, c. 58, f. 87, 88; Wils. VIII, xc. 6. (The Red-head). 
Ash-coloured, finely striated with black; head and top of the neck 
red; lower part of the neck and the breast brown; the bill a light 
lead-colour. Sometimes breeds among the reeds in the ponds of 
France. Its trachea is of an equal diameter. 
An. rufina, L.; Mill. huppé, Enl. 928; Naum. I, c. 32, f. 63, 
64. (The Pochard Duck), Black; the back brown; some white 
on the wing and flank; the head red, the feathers on its summit 
turned up into a tuft; red bill. From the borders of the Caspian 
Sea, and occasionally driven by the winds as far as France. There 
* Glaucion, the Greek name of a Duck, so called on account of the colour of its 
eyes. 
: f Add, An. albcola, Enl. 948, the same as An. bucephala, Catesb. 1, 95;—An. bra- 
ehyptera, Voy. de Freycin. pl. xxxix. 
¢ Add, An. spectabilis, Sparm. Mus. Carls. 1], pl. xxxvi; Edw. 154; Naum. 40, 
f. 58, 
59. 
