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The male Golden Eye measures eighteen 
inches in length, and two feet five inches 
in breadth. The female measures near- 
ly one foot five inches by two feet three 
inches. 
She makes a round nest of grass, lined 
with feathers from her breast; lays from 
sfeven to ten white eggs. Temminck says 
as many as fourteen, and that some of them 
breed in temperate climes. 
The great dissimilarity between the two 
sexes of this species, has been the occa- 
sion of the diversity of opinion concerning 
the Anas Glaucion, and Anas Clangula. 
Until the discovery of that strong spe- 
cific character, the trachea, this species 
had been described by some as four dis- 
tinct birds, and even by the first authorities 
as two, namely the Golden Eye and ilfo- 
ritton. The mature male cannot be mis- 
taken. 
The female is thus described by Montagu. 
« c 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 
