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The Golden E^e. Clangula. 



Numb. XCVI. 



ITS Weight is thirty two Ounces ; its Length from the End of the Bill 

 to the End of the Claws is nineteen Inches ; Breadth when the Wings 

 are extended is thirty one Inches ; it hath a thick and fhort Body, and 

 large Head ; the Neck fliort, as is ufual in moft of this kind ; the Bill is 

 broad, fhort, and fomething more elevated than is common to thofe of 

 the Duck kind, thicker at the Head, lefler and narrower towards the Tip, 

 and all black; from the Tip to the Angles of the Mouth an Inch and three 

 quarters long ; the Head is of a changeable Colour of black, purple and 

 green, as it is varioufly expofed to the Light, fhining like Silk ; at the Cor- 

 ner of the Mouth, on each Side is a round white Spot as big as a Silver three- 

 Pence ; the Irtdes of the Eyes are of a lovely yellow or Gold Colour; the 

 whole Neck, both above and underneath the Shoulders, Breaft and whole 

 Belly, are white ; the Space between the Shoulders, and all the lower part 

 of the Back are black; the Wings party-coloured of black and white, viz, 

 the middle Feathers both Quills and Coverts are white, and the outer and 

 inner black; the long fcapular Feathers are alfo party-coloured of black 

 and white. 



The Tail is three Inches and a half long, made up of iixteen Feathers, 

 from the outermofl: by degrees longer; yet is not the Tail fharp, but ra- 

 ther round pointed, all of an uniform black Colour. 



The Legs are very fhort, of a yellowifh red Colour, as are alfo the Feet ; 

 the Toes are long, dufky about the Joints, and the outermofl the longeft i 

 the innermoft hath a broad appendant Membrane : The Membranes con- 

 nedling the Toes and the Claws are black, and the back Toe is fmall, ha- 

 ving alfo a broad appendant Membrane or Fin ; the V/ind-Pipe hath a 

 Labyrinth at the Divarication; and befides, above fwells out into a Belly 

 or Puff-like Cavity. Thefe Birds are common in Italy^ and are fometimcs, 

 taken on our Coaifs. It hath a £fhy unpleafant Tafte. 



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