ANSERES. 253 



27tli of March, but I can find no evidence of its occurrence in 

 Southern Japan. 



The Long-tailed Duck is a circumpolar species, breeding in the 

 Arctic Regions of both continents. 



246. FULIGULA CLANGULA. 



(GOLUEN-EYE.) 



Anas dangula, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 201 (1766). 



The Golden-eye has dark axillaries, but the central secondaries 

 are white. The feathering on the side of the upper mandible does 

 not approach within half an inch of the nostrils. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, vi. pi. 440. 



The Golden-eye appears to have been found by Steller on the 

 Kurile Islands (Pallas, Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 272). It is a 

 common winter visitor to Japan, and is especially numerous on the 

 coast of Yezzo (Blakiston and Pryer, Trans. As. Soc. Japan, 1882, 

 p. 99). There are two examples in the Swinhoe collection from 

 Hakodadi, one of them obtained by Captain Blakiston in November 

 (Swinhoe, Ibis, 1877, p. 147), and there are eight examples in the 

 Pryer collection from Yokohama. Mr. Ringer procured it at Na- 

 gasaki, where the examples obtained by the Siebold Expedition were 

 doubtless also procured (Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, 

 Aves, pi. 128). 



The Golden-eye is a circumpolar species, breeding in the Arctic 

 Regions of both continents. 



247. FULIGULA HISTRIONICA. 

 (HARLEQUIN DUCK.) 



Anas histrionicus, Linneus, Syst. Nat. i. p. 204 (1766). 



The Harlequin Duck has dark axillaries. It has a small bill 

 (width in front of the nostrils about \ inch) . The feathering on the 

 side of the upper mandible recedes from the nostrils, curving back- 

 wards in a semicircle. 



Figures : Dresser, Birds of Europe, vi. pi. 442. 



