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I found the remains of our common mussel and shrimps. 

 The flesh of this species is coarse, hard, and fishy. 



This Duck is found among the Faroe Islands ; and the 

 notes of Richard Dann, Esq. in reference to this species in 

 Scandinavia, are as follows : — " The Long-tailed Ducks are 

 very numerous on the coasts of Norway and Sweden during 

 the winter, but are seen in greatest numbers off the coast of 

 Scona. Towards the middle of March they begin to draw 

 north, and by the latter end of May appear in vast numbers 

 on the streams and lakes in the mountain-range which divides 

 Finmark from Swedish Laj)land. As the season advances 

 they take themselves to the more elevated and smaller lakes, 

 but in Lapland are not generally found within the range of the 

 dwarf-birch. I have seen great numbers on the Calix lakes. 

 In the Dofre Fiell, a few straggling pairs make their appear- 

 ance and breed. They arrived the last week in May, on the 

 lakes and swamps within the range of the birch, and con- 

 tinued to increase in numbers until the 14th of June, when 

 I lost sight of them on the lakes where they had been most 

 abundant. On ascending, however, to the small lakes in the 

 valleys still higher up the mountains, and at an elevation 

 where the creeping-birch and dwarf-willow can only vegetate, 

 I again found them in pairs the last week in June ; the ice 

 had not then entirely disappeared on these lakes. In July, 

 I again lost sight of the females, but frequently found, and 

 shot the males in the most elevated lakes and small pools in 

 the snow-mountains. Those I shot were filled with the 

 larvoe of aquatic insects. They, undoubtedly, breed in the 

 Dofre Fiell. I saw one night as many as twenty males in 

 a flock fly by. I was not fortunate enough to find the nest, 

 but got specimens throughout the whole summer." 



This Duck is abundant in Russia, and in summer visits 

 Nova Zembla and Spitzbergen. In reference to its high 

 geographical range, its most common name in northern coun- 

 tries is the Arctic Duck. The Long-tailed Duck was found 



