214 NATCTKAEIST'S CABIHET. 



Descriptions* 



THE GOLDEN FYE 



CHIEFLY breeds in Italy ; it has a large head 

 and thick body, the neck short, -and the bill 

 broad, elevated towards the point, of a black co- 

 lour, and is, if measured from the angles of the 

 mouth, about an inch and three quarters long; 

 the head, when variously exposed to the light, 

 appears black, purple, and green, with a fine 

 shining silky gloss ; it has a white spot on each 

 ride of the mouth ; the eyes are of a fine gold 

 colour; the neck, breast, and belly, white; the 

 space between the shoulders and the back is 

 black ; the wings of a fine beautiful mixture of 

 black and white. The tail near three inches 

 long; the legs short, of a yellowish colour; the 

 toes pretty long, and more dusky. 



It has a disagreeable fishy taste; they are 

 sometimes, but very rarely, taken upon the Eng- 

 luh coast. 



THE PINTAIL, 



THOUGH to appearance nearly as long as 

 the golden fye, seldom weighs more than a 

 pound and a half; the wing-feathers are very 

 long; the upper mandible is of a bluish bkick, 

 mostly so about the nostrils, the under quite 

 black. The neck is longer than the generality 





