460 GOLDEN EYE. Clafs II. 



XL The GOLDEN EYE. 



Glangula. Ge/ner a>v. 1 1 9. Knippa, Dopping. Faun. Suec.fp. 



Aldr.a<v. iii 94. izz. 



Wil. orn. 568. Nornjegis Ring-Oye, Hviin-And 



Rati fyn. a<v. 142. v. Quiin-And. Lund-And 



LeGarrot. Brijfon a<v. vi. 416. incolis Cbrifiianfoe, Bruus-Kop 



tab. 37 ■. fig, 2. v. Blanke-Kniv. Br. jo, 71.. 



Eifs Ente. Kram. 341. Br. Zoo/. 154. add. -plates. 

 Anas clangula. Lin.fyjl. 201. 



Defer. 'HP' HIS fpecies weighs two pounds : the length is 



■*• nineteen inches ; the breadth thirty one. The 



bill is black, fhort, and broad at the bafe : the head 



is large, of a deep black gloried with green : at each 



corner of the mouth is a lars;e white foot : for which 



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reafon the Italians call it Shtatfoccbii or four eyes : the 

 • irides are of a bright yellow: the upper part of the 

 neck is of the fame color with that of the head : the 

 bread and whole under fide of the body are white ; 

 the fcapulars black and white : the back, tail, and 

 the coverts on the ridge of the wings, black : the 

 fourteen firft quil feathers, and the four laft are blacky 

 the fever, middlemoft white, as are the coverts imme- 

 diately above them : the legs of an orange color. The 

 Lead of the female * is of a deep brown, tinged with 

 red : the neck grey : breaft and belly white : coverts 

 and fcapulars dufky and afh-colored : middle quil 

 feathers white ; the others together with the tail black; 

 the legs dufky. Thefe birds frequent frefh water, as 

 well as the fea; being found on the Shropjhire meres 

 during winter. 



* The fnialler red headed duck. Wil. am. 369. Rail fjn. av. 



• XII. The 



