WILD FOWL 
BARROW’S GOLDEN-EYE 
CLANGULA ISLANDICA 
(Plate XXIX, Fig. 8) 
Clangula barrovii, Gould, Birds Europe, v, pi. 380 (1837). 
Clangula islandica. Dresser, Birds Europe, vi, p. 603, pi. 441 (1878) ; Salvador!, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., xxvii, p. 383 (1895). 
DULT male. — Head and upper part of neck black, glossed 
with purple; at the base of the bill a crescent -shaped 
i white patch extending from the gape to the side of 
f the forehead; lower part of the neck and under parts 
/ white, the feathers of the sides and flanks widely tipped 
■L.with black; back, rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail 
black; scapulars white on the inner web, black on the outer web, the 
black portion produced into a point, and extending considerably beyond 
the white portion; wings black, a long white patch in the middle formed by 
the median coverts, and a second outer patch formed by the median 
secondary quills and the tips of their greater coverts; under wing-coverts 
and axillaries dark smoky-brown. Iris bright yellow; bill dark plumbeous; 
legs and toes yellow, webs dusky. Total length about 20 inches; bill 
1 35 inch, depth at base 1 1 inch; wing 9 2 inches; tail 3 '5 inches; tarsus 
1 6 inch. 
Adult male in eclipse-plumage . — Probably resembles the female, but retains 
the black and white wing characteristic of the adult male. 
Adult female . — Similar to the female of C. glaucion, but larger, and with 
the grey of the chest, sides and flanks browner, and with less conspicuous 
markings. Total length about 18 inches; bill 1 35 inch; wing 8*9 inches; 
tail 3*0 inches; tarsus 1 6 inch. 
General distribution. — Barrow’s golden -eye breeds in the northern parts 
of North America, from Alaska to Ungava and southwards to Oregon, 
Colorado and Quebec, also in Iceland, but rarely visits Greenland. In 
winter it ranges southwards to California, Utah, Illinois and New York, 
and occasionally strays to North-western Europe. An immature male, 
which has been referred to this species, was shot by Mr F. M. Ogilvie on 
the Aide, Suffolk, on February 1, 1908 (cf. Bull. Brit. Orn. Club, xxiii, 
p. 63). This is the only record. 
Nest and eggs . — ^Like the common golden-eye, this species breeds in 
hollow trees, but where they are not obtainable, it conceals its nest in 
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