A GROUP OF GARROTS. 
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in his ^ British Birds,' gives a figure of it, and describes it 
as about nineteen inches long. Its claim to a place in the 
British fauna rests upon a single specimen shot on the 
10th of February, 1830, at Caistor, near Yarmouth in Nor- 
folk ; this is now in the British Museum. 
The Harlequin Garrot {Clangula Histroiiica)^ some- 
times called the Harlequin Duck. 
The Golden-eyed Garrot (C Chrysophtlialmci), some- 
times called the Golden-eyed, or Gowdy Duck, Pied Wid- 
geon, or Whistler. 
The Buffel-headed Garrot (C. alheola), also called 
the Buffel-headed, or Spirit Duck ; the Marionette. 
The Garrots, as the name Clcmgula applied to the genus 
implies, are noisy birds ; the species of which the genus is 
composed are inferior in size to the Eiders and Scoters ; from 
which they are distinguished by having the bill shorter, 
and destitute of the fleshy protuberances about the angles 
and base of the bill ; they have ftill depressed bodies, short 
thick necks, and large compressed heads, like most other 
Ducks. They inhabit the cold and temperate regions of 
the north, feed chiefly on mollusca, for wdiich they dive : 
they have a quick direct flight, sit raflier lightly on the water, 
and are more active than the Scoters, which they closely 
resemble in their general habits. 
HARLEQUIN. 
The Harlequin Duck, as the first of the above-named 
