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ANAS CLANGULA. 
was shot on the Delaware on the 10th of March, and 
presented to me hy Dr S. B. Smith of this city. On 
dissection, it proved to be a male, and was exceeding’ fat 
and tender. Almost every specimen I have since met 
with has been in nearly the same state ; so that I cannot 
avoid thinking 1 this species equal to most others for the 
table, and greatly superior to many. 
279 . ANAS CLANGULA , LINNAEUS AND WILSON. — GOLDEN-EYE. 
WILSON, PLATE LXVII. FIG. VI. — EDINBURGH COLLEGE MUSEUM. 
This duck is well known in Europe, and in various 
regions of the United States, both along the sea coast 
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 visitors, 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 somewhat tumid, and of a dark green, with 
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 bed of white extends from 
the middle of the lesser coverts to the extremity of the 
secondaries ; the exterior scapulars are also white ; 
tail, hoary brown ; rump and tail-coverts, black ; legs 
and toes, reddish orange ; webs very large, and of a dark 
purplish brown ; hind toe and exterior edge of the inner 
