THE GOLDEN-EYE OR CARROT. 
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Clangula glaucium, Linné. 
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Vernacular Names.—[None.] 
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jee) LTHOUGH it is quite possible that the Golden- 
eye may prove a less rare visitant to our Empire, 
than is at present supposed, all we zow know in 
regard to its occurrence here, is, that Sir A. Burnes 
procured it on the Indus (probably about the mouths 
of this river, where wild fowl swarm in countless 
myriads during the winter,) in Sindh, forty odd 
years ago, and that Dr. Bonavia obtained a fine male some 
ten years ago, captured by fowlers in the neighbourhood of 
Lucknow, which is now in our museum. 
In China this species is common about Pekin and Shanghai in 
winter, and has been observed as far south as Amoy, in, say, 
about 24°30' North Latitude, about the same latitude as Kurra- 
chee and Manipur. 
Prjevalski says that this species is“tolerably common at the 
Dalai-Nor (43° Worth Latitude) at the end of March and begin- 
ning of April, on those parts of the lake which are free from 
ice; and when shot at they rise, but very soon settle down 
again. 
“ At Koko-Nor (37° Worth Latitude, elevation 10,000 feet) they 
arrive about the 4th of March, and get rather numerous towards 
the middle of that month, but are only singly distributed in 
Kan-su, at the sources of the Tetunga. 
“We found them wintering at Lake Hanka (about 44° North 
Latitude) on the open parts of the river Sungatch, in small 
numbers ; but in spring, late in March and early in April, 
they are very plentiful, but always in small flocks of from five 
to twenty birds, and never mixed with other species. 
“The autumnal migration from the Ussuri country occurs 
in September and October ; and in the latter month we often 
saw flocks of these ducks on the Japanese Sea; and in 
December some wintering ones came under our observation 
at the port of St. Olga (about 140 miles east of Lake Hanka.)” 
It occurs in Japan, where Whitley shot a pair in December 
at Hakodadi. In Southern and South-Eastern Siberia, Dauria 
