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THE LONG-TAILED DUCK. 

 Harelda glacialis (Linnseus). 



This species is comparatively uncommon in the south and south- 

 west of England, though it was exceptionally numerous in the 

 winter of 1887-88; while on the west coast it is decidedly rare. 

 On the east side young birds are not unfrequent, and, strange to 

 say, two adult males in full breeding-plumage have been shot on 

 the ' broads ' of Norfolk ; while, proceeding northward, we find this 

 Duck tolerably abundant from November to April. In Scotland 

 small flocks are to be met with from Berwickshire to Caithness, 

 and on the west side it is very common in the Outer and Inner 

 Hebrides. In the Orkneys and Shetlands, where it is well known 

 by the name of ' Calloo,' from the loud musical note of the male, 

 it is to be met with on all the inlets or voes. I have little doubt 

 that it breeds on some of the unfrequented lochs of Yell and Main- 

 land in the latter group, though absolute proof is still wanting. To 

 the north and west of Ireland its visits are irregular, and in the 

 south they are exceptional. 



It is probable that the Long-tailed 1 )uck nests, though sparingly, 

 in the Faeroes, and in Iceland it does so in considerable numbers. 

 In Scandinavia it breeds on the streams and lakes of the fells as far 

 south as 60° N. lat., though it only becomes numerous to the north 

 of the Arctic circle ; while in winter it is very abundant along the 

 coasts. It also breeds in Jan Mayen, Spitsbergen, Novaya Zemlya, 



