ANATIN^. FULIGULA. 
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dull reddish-brown ; lower part of the neck and sides of the body 
brownish-grey, the feathers margined with pale grey, the rest of the 
lower parts white ; upper parts greyish-brown, much darker behind ; 
wings brownish-black, seven of the coverts, unless at the base, white ; 
the small coverts lighter and tipped with grey ; tail brownish-grey. 
Male, 20, 31 Female, 16, 28. 
Abundant during winter on all the running streams of the interior, 
as well as along the Atlantic coast, as far south as the Gulf of Mexico. 
Breeds in high northern latitudes. Accidental in the North-eastern 
Districts. Rocky Mountains, and Columbia River. 
Golden-eye, Anas Clangula, WiLS. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 62. 
Fuligula Clangula, Bonap. Syn. p. 393. 
Clangula vulgaris. Common Golden-eye, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. 
p. 456. 
Clangula Barrovii, Rocky-mountain Garrot, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v. ii. 
p. 453. 
Common Golden-eye, Nutt. Man. v. ii. p. 441. 
Golden-eye Duck, Fuligula Clangula, Add. Orn. Biog. v. iv. p. 318 v. v. p. 105. 
408. 13. Fuligula dispar, Gmel. Western Duck. 
Plate CCCCXXX. Male. 
Bill shorter than the head, greyish-blue ; tail rather short, pointed, 
of fourteen feathers ; upper part of head and broad band surrounding 
the neck, white ; throat and some feathers around the eye black ; a 
light green patch in the loral space, and a transverse patch of the 
same on the nape, margined behind and laterally with black ; a broad 
band on the neck and the whole of the back velvet-black, with green 
reflections ; smaller wing-coverts white ; secondary coverts bluish- 
black, terminating in a broad white band ; elongated secondaries and 
scapulars with the inner web white, the outer black, with blue reflec- 
tions ; primaries and coverts brownish-black ; tail black, as are the 
lower tail-coverts and abdomen ; the breast and sides reddish-buff, 
fading towards the shoulders and neck into pure white ; a bluish- 
black spot on each side of the lower part of the neck anterior to the 
wing. 
Male, 16 ; wing, 8|. 
Northwest coast. 
Anas dispar and Anas Stelleri, Gmel. Syst. Nat. v. i. p. 535, 518. 
Fuligula Stelleri, Bonap. Syn. p. 394. 
Western Duck, Fuligula dispar. Add. Orn. Biog. v. v. p. 253. 
409. 14. Fuligula Albeola, Linn. Buffel-headed Duck. — 
Spirit Duck. Butter-box. Dipper. Die-dipper. Mar- 
rionette. 
Plate CCCXXV. Male and Female. 
Bill much shorter than the head, light greyish-blue ; feet pale flesh- 
