. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . own; axillaries white ; billbluish; irides white. Length.—\y^ to l6-0 inches; wing 75 to 775 ; tail 2-0; bill at front 1-9 to 20. CLANGULA. 201 The female has the head and neck brown, the feathers edged with ferru-ginous; chin white, but less extended; breast brown, the feathers marginedwith pale chestnut brown; abdomen dull white; edge of the wing white;secondaries white, tipped with black. Length.—i^ to IS inches; wing 772. Hah.—Sind, Beloochistan, Persia,
. The edible and game birds of British India, with its dependencies and Ceylon. With woodcuts, lithographs, and coloured illustrations . own; axillaries white ; billbluish; irides white. Length.—\y^ to l6-0 inches; wing 75 to 775 ; tail 2-0; bill at front 1-9 to 20. CLANGULA. 201 The female has the head and neck brown, the feathers edged with ferru-ginous; chin white, but less extended; breast brown, the feathers marginedwith pale chestnut brown; abdomen dull white; edge of the wing white;secondaries white, tipped with black. Length.—i^ to IS inches; wing 772. Hah.—Sind, Beloochistan, Persia, Afganistan and throughout India, exceptSouth India and Ceylon. Occurs in Nepaul, Gilgit and Eastern and WesternTurkistan, in which latter it breeds. In the lakes of Cashmere,* Hume says,•* they breed most abundantly, and that boat-loads of their eggs are brought tomarket at Srinuggar. The White Eye affects chiefly jheels with thick cover,where they sport about in the early morning, afternoon and at night, retiringduring the middle of day. It is not sought for by sportsmen, being veryindifferent eating at the best of Clangula glaucion. The Golden Eye. 240. Clangula glaucion {Lmn.), Bodd. 802; Gould, B. 329; Murray, Hdbk., ZooL, ^c, Sind, p. 238; z<f., Verf, Zool., Sind,p. 296; Hume, Game Birds, iii. p. 285 ; Murray, Avif. Brit. p. 702,No. 1404.—The Golden Eye or Garrot. Head and upper part of the neck glossy deep green when seen in a lightreflected at a small angle, otherwise purple ; throat brownish black ; betweenthe lateral basal sinus of the upper mandible and the cheek is an ovate patchof white, ten-twelfths across in its greatest diameter; the lower neck all round,the breast, forepart of the abdomen, sides, and lower tail coverts white; butthe axillary feathers and lower wing coverts are blackish brown, and the edgesof the posterior elongated feathers on the sides black ; the back and theinner and posterior scapulars are black; the
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