GOLDEN-EYE.
LYYGADD AUR, OP THE ANCIENT BRITISH.
COMECON GOLDEN-EYE. GARROT. RATTLE-WINGS. GOLDEN-EYE DUCK.
Anas clangula,
Anas glaucion,
Clangula vulgaris,
PENNANT. MONTAGU.
BEWICK.
FLEMING. SELBY.
Clangula chtytophihahnos, JENYNS.
Anas—A Duck. Clangula. Clanga—To sound as a trumpet.
THE Golden-Eye is found in Iceland and the Fcrroe Islands, and
throughout Russia, Denmark, Lapland, Sweden, Norway, and Holland.
I t occurs also in Germany, Switzerland, Prussia, Saxony, Silesia,
Hungary, Italy and France. It belongs likewise to the northern parts
of Asia, from Tartary, Persia, and the Caucasus, to Japan. It is said
also to belong to North America.
They breed in the different countries of Scandinavia, and this not
only in natural situations, but also in boxes placed for them by the
inhabitants for the purpose.
The localities these birds frequent are principally the sea coasts, near
the mouths of rivers, but also the borders of inland lakes, ponds, and
streams, not those that arc rapid or turbulent, but such as belong to
the scenes described in the Old Version of the Psalms of David—
* Where peaceful rivers, soft and slow,
Amid the verdant landscape [low.'
When on the sea they prefer such a distance from the shore as will
give a depth of two or three fathoms for the exercise of their foraging
habits.
Iu Yorkshire the Golden-Eye has been obtained in plenty, though