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WHITE EYE. 
that some species, finding there all their nature requires, do not ramble, 
while others spread to a greater distance. 
The female is much less bright in colour ; the white over the eye is 
yellowish ; the wing coverts brownish, with scarce any marks of white, 
as in the male ; weight about a dram more than the other sex. 
WHITE BAKER. — A name for the Beam Bird. 
WHITE EYE {Nyroca leucophtlialmusy Temminck.) 
*Nyroca leucophthalmus, Flem. Br. Anim. p. 121. — Ferruginous Duck, Penn. Br. 
Zool. 2. p. 501. — Mont. Supp. Orn. Diet. — Anas ferruginea, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 
p. 501. — Anas Nyroca, Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 542. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p. 869 — 
Anas leucophthalmus, Temm. Man. d’Orn. 2. p. 876 — Tufted Duck, var. A. 
Lath. Syn. 6. p. 541. No. 79. — Olive-tufted Duck, Br. Miscel. l.t. 21. — 
White Eye, Flem. Br. Anim. p. 121. — Custaneous Duck, Mont. App. to Supp. 
— Linn. Trans. 11. p. 178 African Teal, Lath. Syn. 6. p. 555. and 541, — 
Die Weissaugige ente, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. p. 526. 
A specimen of this bird, shot in the north of England, measured in 
length about nineteen inches ; bill long, and deep at the base, flattish 
at the point, and of a dark lead-colour, with the nail black. Head and 
neck small, of a dark ferruginous ; the lower part of the neck behind, 
back, scapulars, coverts of the wings, and upper coverts of the tail, 
dusky-brown, with a slight tinge of ferruginous ; on the chin is a small 
spot of dirty white ; the lower part of the neck and breast chestnut ; 
beneath which the body is white to the thighs, which, with the part 
between them as far as the vent, are brown, minutely speckled, be- 
coming black about the vent ; behind that, including the under tail 
coverts, white ; the feathers on the sides under the wings, extending to 
the thighs, are bright ferruginous ; the primary quills are whitish at 
their base, dusky at the tips, and on the outer webs, becoming less so 
as they approach the secondaries, which are wholly white, except the 
points, and form a white speculum on the wing when closed ; the ter- 
tials, and the coverts immediately impending the secondaries, are dusky, 
bronzed with green ; the other darker parts of the plumage partake 
more or less of metallic lustre in some points of view, especially the 
scapulars ; the under scapulars are white ; the tail is a trifle cuneiform, 
consisting of fourteen dusky-brown feathers slightly tinged with ferru- 
ginous ; feet rather large, which, with the webs and legs, are lead-colour: 
the middle toe rather longer than the outer one ; claws black. 
The eyes appeared to have been yellow ; but the sex could not be 
ascertained ; the brightness of the plumage, however, should seem to 
indicate the gender to be masculine. 
No bird has puzzled the British ornithologists more than the ferru- 
ginous duck of Mr. Pennant, which has by most of them been consi- 
dered as the female of some other species. To Mr. Foljambe we are 
