246 INDIAN DUCKS. 



Genus CLANGULA. 



The genus Clangnla is a very small one, containing; only three species 

 of birds Avhich range throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Of these 

 three, only one, Clan(jula glaucion, reaches India, and even this only occurs 

 with extreme rarity. The most noticeable thing in this genus, and one 

 which at once separates it from all its closest allies, is the position o£ the 

 nostrils, which are rather nearer the tip than the base ol: the bill, the 

 position being well shown in the woodcut in Blanford's -ith vol. of 

 the ' Fauna of British India.' In many respects in its anatomy it closely 

 approaches the Mergansers, and it is a sort of link between them and the 

 more typical ducks. 



(41) CLANGULA GLAUCION. 

 THE GOLDEX-ETE. 



Clangula glaucion, Hume, Str. Feath. iv, p. 225; id. ibid, vii, pp. 441, 4(i4, 

 & 505; id. Cat. uo. 961 bis; Hume tj' liar. Game-B. iii, p. 185; Held, 

 Str. Feath. x, p. 85 ; Stoker, ibid. p. 424 ; Barnes, B. of Bom. p. 413 ; 

 Salvadori, Cat. B. M. xxvii, p. 376 ; Blanford, Fauna B. I. iv, p. 464 ; 

 Yerbury, Jour. B. N. H. S. xiii, p. 533 : Macdonald, ibid. p. 700 ; Stuart 

 Baker, ibid, xv, p. 348. 



Clangula clangula, Oates, Game-B. ii, p. 358. 



Bescri/dion. Adult male. — " Head and upper neck dark glossy green, the 

 feathers on the crown and nape somewhat elongated ; chin and throat black ; a 

 roundish white patch on the cheeks near the base of the upper mandible ; lower 

 neck, breast, and underparts white ; on the sides of the vent the feathers have 

 the bases slaty grey showing through ; feathers of the flanks edged above with 

 black, the longer ones on both webs ; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts black ; 

 inner scapulars black, the outer ones white, longer scapulars with a white band 

 along the middle ; wings black, with a large white patch covering the central 

 wing-coverts and the outer secondaries ; the inner secondaries black ; under 

 wing-coverts greyish black ; tail blackish grey : bill bluish black ; irides golden- 

 yellow ; feet orange-yellow, the webs dusky. Total length about 18 inches, 

 wing 8*9, tail 4, culmen 1'4, tarsus 1"45.''' (Salvadori.) 



"Bill black in the male .... the eyes are j^ellow and the feet yellow with 

 black webs." (iF. Finn.) 



