210 GOLDEN-EYE. 



pursuit of its quarry. An old Black-Cock (Tetrao tetrix) was 

 sprung, and was instantly pursued by the Eagle, (who must have 

 been on a neighbouring rock unperceived) across the glen, the 

 breadth of which was at least two miles. The Eagle made several 

 unsuccessful pounces, but as there was no cover and the bird large, it 

 probably fell a victim in the end.* 



GOLDEN-EYE (Clangula vulgaris, Fleming.) 



Anas Clangula, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 201. 23.— Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 523 Rail, Syn. p. 



142. A. 8 Will. p. 282. 1 3. t. 73 Ind. Orn. 2. p. 867. 87 Briss. 6. p. 416. 



27. t. 37. f. 2 lb. 8vo. 2. p. 470 Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2. p. 870 Wils. 



Amer. Orn. 8. p. 62.— Le Garrot, Buff. Ois. 9. p. 222 Golden-eye, Br. Zool. 



2. No. 276 lb. fol. 154. t. Add.— Arct. Zool. 2. No. 486 Albin, 1. t. 96. 



— Will. (Angl.) p. 368. t. 73 Lath. Syn. 6. p. 535. 76.— Levin's Br. Birds, 



7. t. 255 Wale. Syn. 1. t. 69 Flem. Br. Anim. p. 120.— Brown-headed 



Duck, Lewins Br. Birds, 7. t. 256. — Morillon, or Grey-headed Duck, Br. Zool. 

 2. No. 277?— Arct. Zool. 2. p. 573. F ? — Lath. Syn. 6. p. 537. 77 1— Will. 

 (Angl.) p 367.— Anas Glaucion, Ind. Orn. 2. p. 868. 88. 



Provincial. — Pied- Widgeon. Gowdy-Duck. 



Willughby and Ray seem to have given the young, or female, of this 

 species under the title of smaller red-headed duck. Lewin considers 

 his brown-headed duck as a distinct species, and states the bill to be 

 essentially different. 



Nothing has tended so much to the discovery and ascertaining the 

 species of ducks as the singular conformation in the trachea, or wind- 

 pipe, of the males of some of this tribe of birds. That of the Golden- 

 Eye is so very different from most others, than it is an unerring mark 

 of distinction. We have examined many with the rusty-brown head, as 

 described by authors for a different species, some of which were males, 

 and had the enlargement of the trachea. 



A matured male Golden-Eye weighs near two pounds ; length 

 between eighteen and nineteen inches ; bill black ; irides fine bright 

 yellow ; head and upper half of the neck black, glossed with green and 

 violet, changeable as viewed in different lights ; at the corner of the 

 mouth is a large white spot ; the lower part of the neck, the breast, 

 and all beneath, are white ; the back, rump, and upper tail coverts, 

 black ; scapulars black and white ; the coverts of the wings are black, 

 with a white patch on the lesser, and another on the larger coverts ; 

 quill-feathers black, except seven of the secondaries, which are mostly 

 white ; tail black ; legs orange. 



The female is considerably less. The bill is yellowish towards the 

 point ; the head in this, as well as in the male, is full of feathers, which 

 makes it appear large ; but instead of being black, it is, as well as the 

 upper part of the neck, of a rusty-brown ; round the middle of the neck 



