brown; the speculum of the wing white, as in the male.
Weight 1^ lbs. The Author has seen a dead female that
was known to be old, with the feathers at the base of the
upper mandible speckled with white, like the adult female
of the Scaup ; and with some elongation of the occipital
feathers.
The young male resembles the female; but he is larger,
and by the end of September he has begun to assume the
dark head, although there is as yet no sign of a tuft.
Weight 1|- lbs.
The very young nestling is with difficulty to be distinguished
from the young of the Scaup, but the bill is somewhat
smaller and narrower at the tip.
The trachea in the Tufted Duck is about seven inches
long, the tube somewhat larger at the upper end, below that
of nearly equal diameter throughout; the figure underneath
shows the form of the tympanum.
AN SERES. AN ATI DAE.
Cla ngu la glaucion (Linnaeus*).
THE GOLDEN-EYE.
Fuligida clangula.
Clangula, Boief.—Bill much shorter than the head, higher than broad at
the base, depressed towards the tip, which is slightly pointed; unguis large,
elliptical and decurved at the tip ; lamella; completely hidden by the overhanging
edge of the maxilla ; nostrils near the middle of the bill. Wings
rather short, pointed, the first quill-feather the longest. Tail of sixteen feathers,
moderately long, rounded. Legs short, placed far back; tarsi scutellate in
front; hind toe small, slender, broadly lobed ; interdigital membranes full.
T h e G o l d e n -e y e 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
* Anas Glaucion, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. Ed. 12, i. p. 201 (1766).
f Isis, 1822, p. 564.