21)2 
ANATINiE. 
FULIGULA. 
outer secondaries brownish-black ; primaries and tail-coverts greyish- 
brown. Female with the bill shorter, pale greyish-green, its tumid 
basal part much less and narrower ; head and neck all round light 
brownish-red, with small lines of brownish-black ; lower part of neck 
all round, the whole upper surface, the sides and lower tail-coverts 
light brownish-red, with transverse brownish-black markings ; secondary 
quills and coverts greyish-brown, tipped with white ; primaries brown- 
ish-black ; tail-feathers greyish-brown ; breast and abdomen greyish- 
brown, obscurely mottled. 
Male, 25, 42. Female, 24, 89. 
Breeds in Maine, on the Bay of Fundy, in Labrador, Newfoundland, 
as far northward as travellers have proceeded. Common in winter 
from Nova Scotia to Massachusetts ; rarely seen in New York. 
Eider Duck, Anas mollissima, Wins. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 122. 
Fuligula mollissima, Bonap. Syn. p. 389. 
Somateria mollissima. Eider, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. p. 448. 
Eider Duck, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 406. 
Eider Duck, Fuligula mollissima, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. iii. p. 344 ; v. v. p. 611. 
****** Bill much shorter than the head, higher than broad at the 
base, narrowed toward the end. 
407. 12. Fuligula Clangula, Linn. Golden-eye Duck. 
Plate CCCCIII. Male in summer. 
Plate CCCXLII. Male and Female in winter. 
Bill shorter than the head, very high at the base ; tail short, gradu- 
ated, of sixteen feathers. Male in summer with the bill black, feet 
orange-yellow, webs dusky ; head and upper part of neck deep 
greenish -blue, changing to deep dusky purple ; back, posterior sca- 
pulars, inner secondaries, edge of wing, alula, primary coverts, pri- 
mary quills, and outer four secondaries black ; an oblong curved or 
semilunar patch of white between the bill and eye ; lower part of neck 
alf round, sides of the body anteriorly, lower parts generally, scapu- 
lars, excepting their margins, which are black, a broad band across 
the wing formed by the first row of small coverts, and several of the 
others, of which the base only is black, and a large patch formed by 
the tips of some of the secondary coverts, and six of the secondary 
quills, pure white ; the two patches on the wings separatecJ^by an in- 
tervening band of black ; axillar feathers and lower wing-coverts 
dusky ; elongated feathers of the sides with the inner, some of them 
also the outer margins, and many with a large portion of the tip black, 
that colour on those of the innermost covering the whole inner webs ; 
tail brownish-grey. Male in winter similar, but with the white patch 
on the side of the head elliptical, and the black band separating the 
white patches on the wing not apparent, although seen on turning 
aside the tips of the smaller coverts. Female with the bill dusky, but 
having a portion toward the end yellow ; head and upper part of neck 
