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GOLDEN EYES, Oil GARROTS—GILPIN. 
During the preparation of this paper, I have been examining 
many more specimens of Golden eyes, especially females, which 
I now can immediately separate from young males by their dif¬ 
ferent wind-pipes. I find that females vary in having, or not 
having a narrow black bar across the white on the wings. This 
narrow black bar is formed by the white greater coverts having 
black tips, where they cover the white secondaries or speculum. 
In all the specimens studied, I have found this bar only in those 
I had already considered Barrow’s females, whilst the common fe¬ 
male had none. But as this bar differs in specimens, and also in 
the wings of the same bird, as respect to size and interruption, and 
as I never have had the opportunity to study it in the young males, 
I think it requires more observation before it is pronounced a 
typical mark. The pansy purple of the head dress of the male 
Barrow, in distinction to the duck-green of the common species, 
noted as typical by Richardson, does not hold, as I had before me 
this winter, a common Golden Eye drake with head dress of the 
finest pansy purple. It is now in the collection of Mr. A. Downs, 
Halifax, N. S. 
