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GOLDEN EYE. 



being three times the diameter of the right. The female has 

 nothing of all this. The intestines measure five feet in length, 

 and are large and thick. 



I have examined many individuals of this species, of both 

 sexes and in various stages of color, and can therefore affirm, 

 with certainty, that the foregoing descriptions are correct. Eu- 

 ropeans have differed greatly in their accounts of this bird, from 

 finding males in the same garb as the females ; and other full 

 plumaged males destitute of the spot of white on the cheek ; but 

 all these individuals bear such evident marks of belonging to one 

 peculiar species, that no judicious naturalist, with all these varie- 

 ties before him, can long hesitate to pronounce them the same. 



