472 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



Mr. Machen of that town. The occurrence was chronicled by 

 the late J. Cordeaux in the Zoologist (1865, p. 9659), and 

 " Birds of the Humber District " (1879, p. 176). 



The specimen is now in the collection of Mr. J. Whitaker 

 of Rainvvorth Lodge. 



LONG-TAILED DUCK. 

 Harelda g^lacialis (Z.). 



Winter visitant ; sometimes not uncommon in immature plumage 

 off the coast ; rare in the adult stage. Occasionally occurs as a straggler 

 to inland waters. 



The earliest British information concerning this species 

 is afforded in Willughby's " Ornithology " (1678), by 

 Ralph Johnson of Brignall, near Greta Bridge, the friend 

 and correspondent of John Ray, who sent a description of 

 a bird called the " Swallow-tail'd Sheldrake,' which answers 

 accurately to the Long-tailed Drake. Mr. Johnson's com- 

 munication is as follows : — 



" I should have taken this to be the Male, and that 

 described by Wormius the Female Harelda in respect of some 

 common notes in Tail and Neb, but that the Female was with 

 this of mine (as may be presumed, a pair only, feeding together, 

 several days in Tees river, below Barnard Castle), and did 

 not much differ in colour." Thus far Mr. Johnson : "I am 

 almost persuaded that it is specifically the same with Wormius 

 his Harelda, differing only in Age or Sex, or perhaps both." 

 (Will. " Orn." 1678, p. 364.) 



Thomas Allis, 1844, reported : — 



Clangula glacialis. — Long-tailed Duck — Not very uncommon about 

 Doncaster ; it is met with but rarely near York. A. Strickland observes 

 "This is truly a Northern species, but is occasionally met with in 

 this country in winter, but is not common now." 



