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Distribution in the British Islands.^A Winter Visitor to 

 our coasts during the colder months from October onwards, 

 immature birds sometimes remaining till May. It frequents 

 estuaries, rivers, and lakes, females and immature birds being 

 much more commonly met with than adult males. 



General Distribution. — The Golden-eye inhabits the north- 

 ern Hemisphere, breeding in the arctic and sub-arctic 

 regions. It is plentiful in Scandinavia south of 70° N. latitude 

 and thence across Russia throughout Siberia ; southwards 

 it is found sparingly in north Germany and in Russia south 

 to about 58° N. latitude. In winter it visits the rest of 

 Europe, ranging in severe seasons to north Africa; also the 

 Black and Caspian seas, Asia Minor, Persia, north India, 

 China, and Japan. In America it breeds from Alaska to 

 Ungava and Newfoundland, and southwards to Montana 

 and New York, and ranges south in winter to Mexico, 

 Florida, and Cuba. The American bird has been separated 

 on account of its slightly larger size. 



Glaucion albeola. Buffkl-headed Duck. 



Anas albeola Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 121 : New- 

 foundland. 



Clangula albeola {Linn.) ■ B. 0. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 132 ; 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 1895, p. 883 ; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 453. 

 Albedla=^6 little white (albus) bird. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor. 

 Only two or three authentic instances are on record : — an 

 adult male killed at Yarmouth, Norfolk, in winter, about 

 1830 ; a second killed at Bridlington, Yorkshire, in the winter 

 of 1864-65. Two males, stated to have been shot in Aberdeen- 

 shire, one on Loch Loriston, Jan. 1865, the other on Loch 

 Strathbeg, are of doubtful origin, while other records are 

 unauthen ticated . 



General Distrilution.— The Buffel-headed Duck breeds 

 in North America from Alaska as far south as Montana 



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