INDIAN DUCKS AND THEIR ALLIES. 15 
¢¢ The bill is blackish in the female and young, sometimes with a 
yellow patch at the tip.” (F. Finn). 
“Females: Length 15:7 to 16°5; expanse 26°3 to 28; wing 7°5 to 8°25; 
tail from vent 3°0 to 3°4; tarsus 1°22 to 1:35; bill from gape 1:12 to 
1-19 ; weight 1lb. 7oz. to 1]b. 1402.” (Hume). 
“ Young in first plumage resemble adult females, but are duller in 
colour ; the pale collar round the neck is much more obscure, the grey 
feathers on the breast have white margins.” 
“ Males in first nuptial dress have less white on the scapulars, the 
white on the hind lower neck is mottled with brown, as is also the 
white spot at the base of the bill.” 
“* Males in moulting plumage resemble adult females, except that they 
retain the white wing of the adult male.” 
“< Young in down are dark brown on the upper parts, and paler brown 
on the breast and flanks, shading into white on the throat and into pale 
grey on the belly.” (Salvadori). 
This is a northern form of duck breeding in Northern Hurope and 
Asia and in America from Maine and Canada northwards. In winter 
it migrates to Southern Europe and, rarely only, into extreme North 
Africa, In Asia it occurs as far south as Persia, China and Japan and, 
as a straggler, enters Northern India and Southern China. In America 
it wanders as far south as Mexico and Cuba. 
The occurrence of the Golden-eye in India is only, as I have already 
said, asa straggler and a very rare one too, all the notes as to its 
occurrence in “ Game Birds,” are that Sir A. Barnes got it on the Indus 
in Sindh nearly 60 years ago, and that Dr. Bonavia obtained a fine male 
about 1870, which was captured by fowlers near Lucknow. 
After “Game Birds” was written, Hume evidently got other speci- 
mens, for in the British Museum are two specimens got by R. N, Stoker, 
which were presented by Hume with the rest of his collection. These 
two birds were obtained one at Hassanpur and one at Ghazi, both in the 
month of December. There is so little on record about this duck in 
India, and “‘Stray Feathers” is now so hard to get, that I reproduce 
the greater part of Stoker’s notes on his specimens. 
“T have now to record shooting near Ghazi on the Indus a female 
Golden-eye (Changula glaucion). Isaw one drake and four ducks, but 
unfortunately only succeeded in getting one of the latter, 
