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outer eJges of six of the secondaries and their incumbent coverts white, 

 except the tips of the latter, which are black ; legs and feet a livid 

 blue ; tail hoary brown ; length of the intestines three feet six inches ; 

 stomach filled with small shell fish. This is the Spirit Duck of Pen- 

 nant, so called from its dexterity in diving (Arct. Zool. No. 487), like- 

 wise the Little Brown Duck of Catesby (Nat. Hist. Car. pi. 98). 



This species is said to come into Hudson's Bay about Severn river in 

 June, and make their nests in trees in the woods near ponds.* The 

 3'oung males during the first year are almost exactly like the females 

 in color. 



Species XXIV. Al^AS GLACIALIS. 



LONG-TAILED DUCK. 



[Plato LXX. Fig. 1, Male.] 



Le Canard d. longxie queue de Terre Nenve, Briss. vi., p. 382, 18. — Buff, ix., p. 202. 

 PI. Eiil. 1008."— Edw. pi. 2S0.— Arct. Zool. No. 501.— L.\th. Syn. in., p. 528.t 



This Duck is very generally known along the shores of the Chesa- 

 peake Bay by the name of South Southerly, from the singularity of its 

 cry, something imitative of the sound of those words, and also, that when 

 very clamorous they are supposed to betoken a southerly wind ; on the 

 coast of New Jersey they are usually called Old Wives. They are 

 chiefly salt-water Ducks, and seldom ramble far from the sea. They 

 inhabit our bays and coasts during the winter only ; are rarely found in 

 the marshes, but keep in the channel, diving for small shell fish, which 

 are their principal food. In passing to and from the bays, sometimes 

 in vast flocks, particularly towards evening, their loud and confused 

 noise may be heard in calm weather at the distance of several miles. 

 They fly very swiftly, take short excursions, and are lively restless 

 birds. Their native regions are in the north, where great numbers of 

 them remain during the whole year; part only of the vast family 



* Latham. 



t Anas Glacialis, Gmex. S>/st i., p. 529, No. 30 ; A. h/ei)ia!i.<!,U. No. 29; Mcrtfus 

 fnrcifer, Id. 548, No. l.—Ind. Orn. p. 864, No. 82, et var. ; Merfiu.f furci/cr, Id. p. 

 832, No. 8; Gen. Sijn. p. 52H, No. 73; Id. p. 529, young male called the female: 

 Id. p. 531, var. A. ; Forked Merganser, Id. sup. ii.. p. 339, No. 5. — Le Canard d 

 Irmgne queue d'Islande, Briss. vi., p. 379. La Sarcelle de Ferroe. Id. p 406, pi. 40, 

 fig. 2.— Buff. IX., p. 278. PI 1008, old male; 999, yearling.— Edwards, pi. 280, 

 old male, pi. 156, young male. — Pr. ZooL No. 283. — Bewick, ii., p. 327.— Canard 

 de MiUon, Temm. Man. d' Orn., p. 860. 



