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GOLDEN-EYE. 
AJV^S CLANGULA. 
[Plate LXVIL— Fig. 6, MaleJ] 
Le Garroty Briss. VI, p, 416, 27, pi 37, Jig. 2. — Buff. IX, p. 222. PLEnl 802. — ArcU 
Zool No, 486; Morillony Id, vol II, p, 300, F. — Br. Zool No, 276, 277. — Lath. Syn. 
Ill, p. 535 ; Id. Sup, II, p, 355, No, 26. — Ind. Om. p, 867, No, 87 ; A, glaucion, Id. p, 
868, No. 88. — Gmel. Syst. I, p. 523, No. 23 ; Id. p, 525, No, 26. — Temm. Man, d^Om, 
p, 870. — Bewick, II, /j. 330. — Cuv. Rtg, An, I, p, 534. — Pe ale’s No, 2921; 
female^ 2922. 
THIS Duck is well known in Europe, and in various regions 
of the United States, both along the seacoast, and about the lakes 
and rivers of the interior. It associates in small parties, and may 
easily be known by the vigorous whistling of its wings as it passes 
through the air. It swims and dives well ; but seldom walks on 
shore, and then in a waddling awkward manner. Feeding chiefly 
on shell-fish, small fry, &c. their flesh is less esteemed than that 
of the preceding. In the United States they are only winter visi- 
tors, leaving us again in the month of April, being then on their 
passage to the north to breed. They are said to build, like the 
Wood Duck, in hollow trees. 
The Golden-eye is nineteen inches long, and twenty-nine in 
extent, and weighs on an average about two pounds ; the bill is 
black, short, rising considerably up in the forehead ; the plumage 
of the head, and part of the neck, is tumid, and of a dark green, 
Avith violet reflections, marked near the corner of the mouth with 
an oval spot of white ; the irides are golden yellow ; rest of the 
neck, breast, and whole lower parts, white, except the flanks, 
which are dusky ; back and wings black ; over the latter a broad 
