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Title: A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Harting, James Edmund, 1841-1928
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, J.C. Nimmo
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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the flowing of the tide were carried,from the contraction of the channel, with great im-petuosity into the net, where they were found thenext morning drowned. The weight of an adult Golden-eye is from 2 lbs.to 2 lbs. 6 oz. The Morillon of old writers is the youngof this species ; but the Morillon of Belon, describedby Willughby as having its bill cut on the edgelike a saw, legs and feet red on the inside, and itshead ferruginous, is apparently a female Goosander. Barrows Golden-eye (Clangula islandica), anative of Iceland, Greenland, and Arctic America, isreported to have been met with once at the mouthof the Derwent (Zool, 1864, p. 9038), but it is ex-tremely doubtful whether the species was correctlyidentified. (See Newton, Diet. Birds, p. 369.)Robert Gray, in his Birds of the West of Scot-land, p. 396, writes: For many years I havecarefully watched for the appearance of Clangulaislandica (Gmelin) in the Outer Hebrides, but with-out success. It is a larger bird than our well- •^J
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DUCKS 257 known Golden-eye, and the male has a white specu-lum on the wing divided by a black bar. The whitecrescent-shaped spot on the side of the head alsois larger, and comes up in front of the eye. Thefemales of the two species are much alike, but inthe rarer bird the bill in both sexes is shorter andnot so deep at the base. LONG-TAILED DUCK. Harelda glacialis (Linnseus).PI. 29, figs. 1, 2. Length, 22 in.; bill, 1 in.; wing, 9in.; tarsus, 1-25 in. A winter visitant to both the east and west coastsof Scotland, and common at that season in the Hebri-des, Orkney, and Shetland, In England more oftenmet with in winter on the east than on the west coast. Immature birds ivithout the long tail-feathersare occasionally found during the winter monthsin the estuaries and tidal harbours along the Eng-lish Channel, whence they are sometimes reportedas Harlequin Ducks, In Ireland Harelda glacialis is regarded as anirregular winter visitor in small numbers. Its breeding haunts are in Iceland,^ L

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