. American duck shooting. Duck shooting; Ducks. BARROW'S GOLDEN-EYE. Glaucionetta islandica (Gmel.). Adult male extremely similar to the golden-eye, but larger and with the head and upper neck bluish-black, with purplish reflections instead of greenish, with the spot at the base of the bill, and in front of the eye, tri- angular or crescent-shaped, and with very much less white on the wing, this usually being confined to two long bars with a short, black bar between them. The female is much as in the ordinary whistler. The collar about her neck is narrower than in the whistler; the white on th
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. American duck shooting. Duck shooting; Ducks. BARROW'S GOLDEN-EYE. Glaucionetta islandica (Gmel.). Adult male extremely similar to the golden-eye, but larger and with the head and upper neck bluish-black, with purplish reflections instead of greenish, with the spot at the base of the bill, and in front of the eye, tri- angular or crescent-shaped, and with very much less white on the wing, this usually being confined to two long bars with a short, black bar between them. The female is much as in the ordinary whistler. The collar about her neck is narrower than in the whistler; the white on th