450 NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



[215.] 1. Clangula vulgaris. (Leach.) The Common Golden Eye. 



Sub-family, Fuligulinae, Swains. Genus, Clangula, Boie, Leach. 



Anas clangula. Forster. Phil. Trans., lxii., p. 417. No. 48. 



Morillon {Anas glaucion). Penn. Arct. Zoo?., ii., p. 573. F.Young. 



Golden Eye {Anas clangula). Idem, p. 557, No. 486. Wils., viii., p. G2, pi. 67, f. 6, male. 



Canard garrot {Anas clangula). Temm., ii., p. 870. 



Fuligula clangula. Bonap. Syn., p. 393, No. 342. 



Meesheh-pesqua-pewew. Cree Indians. 



DESCRIPTION 



Of a male, killed on the Saskatchewan, May, ] 827- 



Colour. — Head and two inches of the neck brilliant duck-green ; fore-head and chin 

 blackish-brown. Back, long scapulars, coverts bordering the wing, primaries, four outer 

 secondaries, and the tertiaries pitch-black. A round patch beneath the lores, lower part of 

 the neck, shoulders, outer scapulars, intermediate and greater coverts, seven posterior 

 secondaries, and tbe whole under plumage, pure white, except the deep black edges of the 

 long flank feathers, and the spaces round the thighs, which, with the tail, are broccoli- 

 brown. Bill black. Feet orange. Irides golden yellow. 



Form. — Bill high at the base, narrowed towards the point ; the lamince resembling those of 

 Fidigula valisneria. Nostrils nearer to the tip than to the base. Head large ; forehead high ; 

 occipital plumage lengthened. Wings moderately long, acute, two inches and a half shorter 

 than the tail. First and second quills sub-equal and longest. Tail long (among the Anatidos) 

 graduated, the shafts slightly projecting. Toes long. 



The female resembles that of the following species, differing only in the form of the bill. 



Dimensions 



Of the male. 



Lin. Inch. Lin. Inch. Lin. 



6 Length of bill above . 1 G£ Length of tarsus ..16^ 



6 „ of bill to upper angle 2 „ of middle toe . 2 6 



,, of bill to rictus .24 „ of outer toe . 2 7 



— R. 





Inch. 



Length, total 



. 22 



,, of tail 



4 



„ of wing 



. 9 



[216.] 2. Clangula barrovii. (Nobis.) Rocky Mountain Garrot. 



Plate lxx. 



Genus, Clangula. 

 Ch. Sp. Clangula Barrovii, capite colloque superiori violaceis ; pone rostrum utrinque crescenti alba, speculo 



et fascia transversa alee albis fascia nigra, separatis. 

 Sp. Ch. Rocky Mountain Garrot. Head and upper part of the neck pansy-purple, with a large crescentic 



white mark before each eye. White speculum separated from the band on the coverts by a black stripe. 



Plate lxvii. 



Notwithstanding the general similarity in the form and markings of this bird 

 and the Common Golden Eye, the difference in their bills evidently points them 

 out to be distinct species. Exclusive of the specific characters, above noted, 



