upper tail-coverts are blackish, the tailbluish-grey, lighter
at the end. The bill is dusky; the feet of a leaden tint.
The male in the third year, and after his second-moult, has
greatly improved in colouring, although the tints are not
nearly so pure as in the old bird. The hind part of the
neck is still brown, as are the wing-coverts; the sides are
dark brownish-grey,-, with undulated yellowish-red bars. The
white collar is not yet complete, but all the white*, markings
on the neck are edged with black; the fore part of the breast
is dull grey, the middle yellowish-grey., spotted, with bluisb-
grey. The white bar on the wing is still wanting; the rump
is-glossy bluish-black, the tail nearly: of :the same tint ” :v
I have never been able to obtain "a specimen of the windpipe
of the male of this V p e d ^ J f is-thus described-by Mr.
Audubon: i( is six inches and a half in length, has at first a
breadth of only three . lines, but at the distance^ of'three-
quarters of an inch . enlarges to. four and a half lines,- and so
continues for two inches ; it then contracts to two and a half
lines, and again at the lower part enlarges itos five and a
quarter lines, and-terminates in a large transverse bony, d o tation
or tympanum, of which the length is* seveiPand a-lgi®
lines, the breadth, one inch.ttfo linesV it prefects as usual to-
the left side, where it is of a rounded form.”
NATATORES. ANAT1DAZ.
T H E GOLDEN EY E ,
Anas .olangula, Golden Eye Duck, Penn. Brit. Zool. vol.,ii. p. 253.
g E P /V . * „ „ „ Mont. Ornith. Diet'.
,, ,, ,, „ ,, BEWiCKj Brit. Birds, vol.ii. p. 381,
'f^tii^\-gIducion> The Moriblprr, „>] _ t. ,, . >, ,» 385.
Cl&ngula vulgaris, Golden Eye, „ Flem. Brit. An. p.120,
■ R ] ' 1 Common , , Selby, Brit, Ornifh.'vol.ii, p. 367.
^P^^ilrysopthalmos, Goldin Eye Garrgt, J enyns, Brit.-Vert. p. 245.
' >t , it Gèould,. Birds of Europe, pt. i.
Anas, clangulop Canard Garrotp ^ Temm. Man. d’Ornith. vol. ii. p. 870.
T he Golden E ye is another species of Duck, which visits
this country in small flocks- every winter, and is well known
on most parts of our coast, particularly the females and
young birds of the year, which are much more- numerous,
and more easily procured than adult males. These birds
resort to, and feed in, the estuaries, or at a short distance