. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. G O L D £ K E Y E. aSy pers of the bill, which at a diftance appear like two eyes, (ituated near the other two, in the black hood gloifed with green, which covers the head and the top of the neck. Hence the Ita« Jian name ^attr*Occhi, or four eyes. The En- glifh have termed it Golden Eye^ becaufe its iris is of a golden-yellow. Its tail and back are |>lack, as well as the great quills of the wing, of which moft: of the coverts are white: the lower part of the neck,
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. G O L D £ K E Y E. aSy pers of the bill, which at a diftance appear like two eyes, (ituated near the other two, in the black hood gloifed with green, which covers the head and the top of the neck. Hence the Ita« Jian name ^attr*Occhi, or four eyes. The En- glifh have termed it Golden Eye^ becaufe its iris is of a golden-yellow. Its tail and back are |>lack, as well as the great quills of the wing, of which moft: of the coverts are white: the lower part of the neck, with all the fore fide of the body, is of a fine white: the legs are very ihort, and the membranes which conned: the toes extend to the tips of the nails, and are there faftened. The female is rather fmaller than the male, and differs entirely in its colours, which, as ge- nerally obferved in all the ducks, are duller and paler in the females; thofe of the female Golden Eye are gray or brownifli, which in the male are black; and thofe white gray, which in the other are of a fine white: nor has flie the green ;efle6lion on the head, or the white fpot at the corner of the bill *. The flight of the Golden Eye, though pretty low, is very ftiif, and makes the air to whiftle I »' %1^ %m^ ente, ^aker-ente, Ei/s-ente; and in the neighbourhood of Strafliurg Weijer-dritt-vogel: in Sweden Knippa\ and in the province of Sko- «en Dopping: in Norway Ring-oye, Hviin'^anc/i Lund-and, • Aldrovandu?t It M '}< 'i i If mi :)!' ^Jlt. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de, 1707-1788. London : Printed for A. Strachan, and T. Cadell in the Strand, and J. Murray . ..
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