LONG-TAILED DUCK. 
NORTHERN HARELD. CALLOO. COAL-AND-CANDLE-LIGHT, 
LONG-TAILED SHIELDRAKE. SHARP-TAILED DUCK. 
Anas glacialis, PENNANT. MontaGu. 
Clangula glacialis, FLEMING, SELBY. 
Anas—A Duck. Glacialis—Belonging to ice. 
Tus is yet another of those hardy birds which revel in 
the cold of the extreme north. It is a well-defined and 
handsome species. 
They are very plentiful in the hyperborean regions—Iceland, 
Nova Zembla, Spitzbergen, and others, and on the European 
continent are found in Russia, Denmark, Norway, Lapland, 
and Sweden, along the shores of the mainland, as well as 
among. the islands of the Baltic. They have been known, 
too, in Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, and Holland. 
In America they are equally abundant in Greenland and the 
North Georgian Islands, Labrador, Hudson’s Bay, and about 
Newfoundland, and come southwards, in winter, as far as 
Carolina; likewise in the northern parts of Asia—Kamtschatka 
and others. 
They frequent the offing of the sea-coast, and at times the 
lochs in its vicinity, but are rarely seen either inland, or often 
far out at sea. 
In Yorkshire, Edward Dawson, Esq., of Osgodby Hall, shot 
one, a female, in the month of November, 1852, on Riccall 
Common. One was shot on the coast in the winter of 1851, 
as Mr. William Felkin, Jun., of Carrington, near Nottingham, 
has informed me. It has also occurred near Driffield, Doncaster, 
and York. In Oxfordshire one was killed near Standlake in 
