106 GOLDEN-EYE DUCK. 



tinged with brown. An oblong, curved patch of white between the 

 bill and eye, broader and rounded at its lower part, which is on a level 

 with the rictus, becoming narrower upwards, and ending in a recvu-ved 

 point, which extends to five-twelfths of an inch above the level of the 

 eye and of the base of the upper mandible. Lower part of neck all 

 round, sides of the body anteriorly, the lower parts generally, the sca- 

 pulars, excepting their margins which are black, a broad band across 

 the wing formed by the first row of small coverts, and several of the 

 others, of which the base only is black, and a large patch formed by 

 the tips of some of the secondary coverts, and six of the secondary 

 quills, pure white. These two patches of white on the wing are se- 

 parated by an intervening band of black, which is not apparent in the 

 more usual state of the bird, in which however it is seen on turning 

 aside the tips of the smaller coverts. Axillar feathers and lower wing- 

 coverts dusky ; the elongated feathers of the sides have the inner, some 

 of them also the outer margins, and many of them a large portion of the 

 tip, black, that colour on those of the innermost covering the whole 

 inner webs.' The feathers on the legs, along the sides of the rump, and 

 some under it, dusky. The tail brownish-grey. 



Length to end of tail 21^ inches ; bill along the ridge ly**^, from the 

 angle li%, along the edge of lower mandible 2 ; wing from flexure 9y»g ; 

 tail 4 ; tarsus li% ; hind toe 1*^ ; its claw ^| , second toe 2, its claw j%, 

 third toe 2|, its claw ^\ ; fourth toe 2f |, its claw i*^. 



It will be perceived on comparing Plates CCCXII, and CCCCIII, 

 as well as the above description and that given at p. 324 of the fourth 

 volume, that the only differences that can be pointed out between the 

 Golden-eye, and what is called the Rocky Mountain Garrot, are such, 

 referring to size, as are to be found in every species of bird ; a conspi- 

 cuous black band crossing the wing of the latter, which is to be seen 

 only on raising the feathers in the former, but which not the less exists 

 in it also ; and the black tips of some of the elongated feathers on the 

 sides, which are generally white in the ordinary state of the plumage. 

 These however are very insignificant difi"erences, not at all comparable 

 to such as are found in diff'erent states of many other ducks, for ex- 

 ample, Fuligula glacialis, and F. rubida. 



In the next place, it is to be remarked that in one common Golden- 

 eye before me, the head is all green excepting a very small portion of 



