GOLDEN EYES, OR GARROTS—GILPIN. 
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again black with green reflections. Of the colour of the bills, 
some being black and others having yellow patches upon them, 
as I have found the same in the next species also, I will refer to 
it more fully after I have described them. 
The Rocky Mountain, or Barrow’s Golden Eye. 
This description is taken from a male in full plumage, shot 
January, 1876, Digby Basin : 
Total length 1 ft. 8 in.,—length of bill 1 8-10 in. } dried 
height, 1 inch, j specimen. 
'colour head and neck for about two inches, dark with purple re¬ 
flections on the crest and forehead, duck green upon cheeks; a 
triangular spot beginning a little below the corner of the mouth 
rises above the culmen of the bill f of an inch, the outside edge 
for two-thirds lininof the bill. This triangle is white. The neck, 
upper shoulder, breast and belly white. The long flank feathers 
with long black spots, and a black band crossing the belly at 
vent. The back and tail black. The axillaries on their upper 
part have a few white feathers that make an interrupted line. 
The greater wing coverts have a patch two inches long and half 
inch wide white, and the secondaries forming the speculum with 
a few of the greater wing coverts make another white stripe. 
The inside of the tail slate, inside wings slatish, other parts 
black. The irides golden yellow, bill black, nostril large nearer 
the tip, a decided nail and hook, the bill narrowing at point, 
where the feathers meet the culmen subcircular. The feet and 
legs yellow orange, webs and nails black, hind toe orange out¬ 
side, inside black with yellow edging. Black pencilling run¬ 
ning inside of leg to joint. The form of this specimen was 
robust, head tumid with occipital crest, neck short and body 
very round. Female Rocky Mountain Golden-eye. This des¬ 
cription is taken from one shot with a drake of the same species, 
on the loth February, and therefore in good plumage. It may 
be considered the type of a female in nuptial plumage— 
Total length 1 ft. 6 inches; breadth 2 ft. 2 in.; length of bill 
inch. 
The folded wing reached to sixth feather of tail, and the feet 
to nearly the end of tail. Colour dark umber brown with a 
