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Nyroca leucophthalmos, Gray, p. 201 ; Gould, v. pi. 21. 



Fuligula ferruginea^ Hurting, p. 64. 



Nyroca ferruginea. Dresser, vi. p. 581. 



The Ferruginous Duck, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 238. 



Ferrugmea = of the colour of iron-rust, ferrugo, from fernim = iron. 



A spring straggler to the eastern coasts of England, and 

 once met with in Scotland. It inhabits the temperate and 

 southern portions of the Palsearctic Region. 



Genus CLANGULA, Boie, Ms, 1822, p. 564. 



Clangula, diminutive of Ckmga ; KXayyri = clangor, any sharp sound, espe- 

 cially the scream of Oranes. 



Clangula glaucion. Goldbnete. 



Anas Glaucion, Linnceus, S. N. i. p. 201 (1766). 

 Anas Clangula, LinruBus, S. N. i. p. 201 (1766). 



Clangula chrysophthalma, Macg. v. p. 174. 



Anas clangula, Naum. xii. p. 162. 



Fuligula vulgaris, Hewitson, p. 435. 



Clangula glaucion. Gray, p. 202 ; Gould, v. pi. 31 ; Harting, 



p. 66; Dresser, vi. p. 595. 

 Fuligula clangula, Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 368 ; id. ed. 3, iii. 



p. 371. 

 The Golden Eye, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 267. 



Qlauown = yXavKwv, a grey-eyed water-bird in Athenseus, 395 0. ; from 

 yXauKos = bluish-grey. G-enerally Latinized into glaucium by pre-Linneau 

 writers and always (for Chelidonmm ffirtMcfwm ) by botanists, including LinnEeus. 



A winter visitant to the United Kingdom, especially the 

 northern districts. It inhabits the Northern Palsearctic and 

 Nearctic Regions. 



Clangula islandica. Baeeow's Goldenete. 



Anas islandica, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 541 (1788). 

 Anas islandica, Naum. xii. p. 186. 

 Clangula islandica. Dresser, vi. p. 603. 



Islandica — of Iceland. 



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