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LONG-TAILED DUCK. 



(Fuligula glacialis, Bonap. Synops. No. 346. Harelda glacialiSj 

 Leach, and Rich, and Swains. North. Zool. ii. p. 400 Anas 

 glacialis, Linx. Lath. Ind. ii. sp. 82. Temm. ii. p. SCO. Wilson, 

 viii. p. 93. pi. 70. fig. 1. and 2. [male and female in winter dress.] 

 Long-tailed Duck, Penn. Arct Zool. ii. No. 501. Ib. Brit. Zool. 

 p. 156. t. Q. Canard a long Queue, ou Canard de Miclon, Bvff. 

 Ois. ix. p. 202. Ibid. PI. Enlum. 1008. La Sarcelle de Ferroe. PI. 

 Enlum. *J99. Anas caudacuta harilda, Ray. Syn. p. 145, 14. [the 

 young of the year]. Phil. Museum, No. 2810.) 



Sp. Charact. — Speculum brown, nearly of the same color with 

 the wing; a whitish space round the eye, tail long of 14 unequal 

 pointed feathers. Male varied with black and white ; middle tail 

 feathers greatly elongated. Winter plumage, watli the head, neck 

 and scapulars white, the latter pearly. Female dusky brown, throat 

 and collar ash-grey ; crown blackish : in lointcr beneath white. 



This elegant and noisy Duck, known so generally in the 

 Southern States by the nickname of ' South-Southerly,' 

 from its note, and, in most other parts by the appellation of 



