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MaxiLLa :—Orange-yellow, blackish anteriorly. 
Legs :—Orange-yellow. 
IR1IDES :—Golden-yellow, not crimson. 
G, H. EVANS, Very.-Capr,, A.V.D, 
RANGOON, 21sé May, 1900, 
No. VI.—THE GOLDEN-EYE (CLANGULA GLAUCION),. 
Mr. Blanford (in Birds, Vol. IV, p, 465, “ Fauna of British India ” ) men- 
tions my name as one of the few who have met with the Golden-eye within 
Indian limits; having regard, therefore, to Mr. Baker’s remarks on pages 15 
and 17 of this Volume of the Society’s Journal, it seems incumbent on me to 
send to the Journal a note regarding my acquaintance with this duck, Ta 
the Chach Plain, on the banks of the Indus above Attock, the Golden-eye is 
a regular and by no means rare cold-weather visitant, 
On referring to my old shikar diary I find the following records regarding it, 
I, Azgar, 26th December, 1885—2 specimens 9 9. 
II. Azgar, 27th December, 1885—1 specimen @,immature. The skin of 
this specimen is now in the British Museum collection, vide Cat. 
Birds, Vol. XXVII, p. 382, and this record has apparently been 
overlooked by Mr, Baker. 
III. Azgar, 8th February, 1886—2 specimens, unsexed, 
IV. River Indus, between Attock and Azgar, 24th Vebruary, 1886— 
1 specimen, unsexed, 
On the latter date I was in company with Dr, Stoker, and we shot up stream 
from Attock along the banks of the river to Gaziabad, returning the next day 
to Attock by boat. 
I can find no record of shooting any specimens during the cold weather 
of 1886-87, but I think that was probably due to my haviag refrained from 
shooting them, the duck being useless for the table. 
A brief description regarding the locality affected by this species may be 
of interest. The River Indus, after having been much narrowed about Tor- 
bela by the near approach of the mountains on each side, widens out in the 
Chach Plain to a considerable breadth (possibly 6 or 7 miles in places) to be 
again constricted at Attock. In the Chach Plain, where the river is widest, 
there are numerous islands in the bed of the stream, and it is in the channels 
between these islands and the banks of the river that the Golden-eye lies, 
A similar widening of the river takes place further south below Kalabagh, 
and probably there, too, the species will turn up. 
I never met with this species away from the river, and, like Dr, Stoker, 
usually found it in flocks of four or five individuals. According to the notes 
in my copy of Hume and Marshall’s ‘“‘ Game Birds of India,’ the name given 
to me for this duck by the local shikarries does not agree with that given to 
Dr, Stoker. The most interesting piece of information given me by my 
