. Animals in menageries. aras the black extends on the male, dull brown, skirtedin places with pale drab : back dusky white, crossed 268 ANIMALS IN MENAGERIES. with fine waving lines: belly of the same dull white,pencilled like the back : wings, feet, and bill as inthe male: tail covers dusky : vent white, waved withbrown. Dr. Richardson, who killed this species early in !May,on the banks of the Saskatchewan, observes, that itbreeds in all parts of the fur countries, from the 50thparallel to their most northern limits; and that it asso-ciates on the water with the FuUgulaferina, marilla, andse
. Animals in menageries. aras the black extends on the male, dull brown, skirtedin places with pale drab : back dusky white, crossed 268 ANIMALS IN MENAGERIES. with fine waving lines: belly of the same dull white,pencilled like the back : wings, feet, and bill as inthe male: tail covers dusky : vent white, waved withbrown. Dr. Richardson, who killed this species early in !May,on the banks of the Saskatchewan, observes, that itbreeds in all parts of the fur countries, from the 50thparallel to their most northern limits; and that it asso-ciates on the water with the FuUgulaferina, marilla, andseveral of the freshwater ducks. The Com3ion or Golden-eye vulgaris, Leach. ( Fig. 42.) Male. — Clangula vulgaris, III. of British Orn. ii. 367. ii. 456. Anas clangula, Linn., Avct., Wilson, viii. pi. 67. /. 6. Canard Garrot, Temminck, Man. ii. 870. PL Enl. 802. Golden-eye Duck, of Authors, see Montagu, Orn. — Anas glaucion, Linn., Auct. Morillon, Latham, Synop. vi. 537. & The circumstance of having just witnessed this veryhandsome and interesting duck sporting and divingabout, along with that part of the collection of livingwater-fowl turned out by the Ornithological Society onthe canal in St. Jamess Park, sufficiently proves thatit may be in some measure domesticated, and accustomedto such situations ; although there may be but smallhope of its ever being induced to breed in confinement. COMMON GARROT. 269 It is a native both of Europe and North America; com-ing to us, as well as to the United States^ only in winter;retiring northward in me spring, with the majority ofthe other ducks, to breed. VFilson seems to have knownlittle or nothing of the manners of the American race;although he says it is a ^ well known bird in variousparts of the United States, both along the sea coast andabout the lakes and rivers of the interior. In regard toits manners in this part of the world, we cannot have abetter authority than Mr. Selby, whose tw
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