Class TI. GOLDEN EYE DUCK, 



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Anas Clangula. A. nigro al- 

 boque varia, capite tumido 

 violaceo, sinu oris macula 

 alba. Lath. Ind. orn. 867. 

 id. Syn. vi. 535. id. Sup. ii. 

 355. id. Lin. Tr. iv. fal. 15. 

 Jig. 1. 2. 



Clangula. Gesner. av. lip. 



Aldr. av. iii. g4. 



Wil. orn. 368. 



Rail Syn. av. 142. 



Le Garrot. Brisson av. vi. 

 416. Tal. 37. fg' 2. Hw^. 

 d'ois. ix. 222. P/. Enl.gjG. 



Schwartzkopfige Enten-Tau- 

 cher. Frisch, ii. 183, 184. 



Eiss Ente. Kram. 341. 



Anas clangula. Gm. Lin. 523. 



Knippa, Dopping. Faun. Suec. 

 sp. 122. 



Norvegis Ring-Oye, Hviin- 

 And V. Quiin-And, Lund- 

 And. Incolis Christiansoe, 

 Bruus-Kopv. Blanke-Kniv. 

 Br. 70, 71. 



Scopoli, No. 71- 



Br. Zool. 154. add. plates. 

 Arct. Zool.i\.2S\. r ■ 



15. Golden 

 Eye. 



XHIS species weighs two pounds: the length 

 is nineteen inches ; the breadth thirty-one. The 

 bill is black, short, and broad at the base ; the 

 head is large, of a deep black glossed with 

 green ; at each corner of the mouth is a large 

 white spot, for which reason the Italians call it 

 Qiiatfocchii, or four eyes ; the irides are of a 

 bright yellow ; the upper part of the neck is 

 of the same color with that of the head ; the 

 breast and whole under side of the body are 

 white ; the scapulars black and white ; the back, 

 tail, and the coverts on the ridge of the wings, 

 black ; the fourteen first quil feathers, and the 

 four last are black, the seven middlemost white. 



Descrip- 

 tion. 



