WILD FOWL. 
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THE EIDER DUCK. 
Fuligula Molissima .— Vulgo, Squaw Duck. 
This well-known species, famous for its admirable down, is 
common to both continents. A few pair breed on the coast of 
Maine, and thence northward to Labrador. It is a rare visitant, 
however, any where along the Atlantic coasts of the United 
States; is seldom indeed seen southward of New-York, and 
hardly ever of New-Jersey. 
Its flesh is intolerably oily and fishy; and but for its down it 
is worthless. 
To the Esquimaux and the Greenlander alone can it be re¬ 
garded in the light of game. Its peculiarity, and the fact of its 
occasionally breeding on the coast of the States, which no other 
of the Sea-ducks— -fuligula —are known to do, alone induces me 
to give it a place in this work. 
GOLDEN-EYE DUCK. 
Fuligula Clangula. 
'* Male, 20.31L Female, 16.23. 
“Abundant during the 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 the high northern latitudes, ac¬ 
cidental in the northeastern districts, Rocky Mountains, Colum¬ 
bia River. 
“ Adult male in winter : 
“ Bill black. Iris bright yellow. Feet orange yellow, webs 
dusky, claws black. Head and upper part of the neck deep- 
green, changing to purple in certain lights. Back, posterior 
scapulars, inner secondaries, edge of wing, alula, primary 
coverts, primary quills, and four or five outer secondaries, black ; 
the back being darker and glossy, the wing feathers tipped with 
