Wilson, Alexander, 1766-1813. / American ornithology; or The
natural history of the birds of the United States Species 22.
Anas clangula. Golden eye, pp. -362 362 GOLDEN EYE. bottom of
this labyrinth, as it has been called, the trachea branches off
to the two lobes of the lungs; that branch which goes to the
left lobe being three times the diameter of the right. The
female has nothing of all this. The intestines measure five feet
in length, and are large and thick. I have examined many
individuals of this species, of both sexes and in various stages
of colour, and can therefore affirm, with certainty, that the
foregoing descriptions are correct. Eu- ropeans have differed
greatly in their accounts of this bird, from finding males in
the same garb as the females; and other full plumaged males
destitute of the spot of white on t, cheek; but all these
individuals bear such evident marks of belonging to one peculiar
species, that no judicious naturalist, with all these varieties
before him. can long hesitate to pr