HARELDA GLACIALIS. 605 
HARELDA GLACIALIS (Linnzus). 
LONG-TAILED DUCK. 
§ 5798. Two—lIceland. From Mr. Hewitson, 1844. 
§ 5799. One.—Iceland, 1846. From Mr. Henry Milner. 
Mr. Milner tells me these eggs vary exceedingly in size and shape. 
They are very plentiful in Iceland. 
§ 5800. Zwo.—Shetland, 1848. 
Given to me with other eggs at Lerwick in 1848 by Miss Bain, 
marked “Caloo Duck.” She was positive they were taken in 
Shetland on a low holm, I believe, near Papa Stour, and I have 
no doubt they were taken there. Mr. Dunn did not know that the 
bird bred in Shetland, nor, did any authority I have met with. It is 
probably a rare occurrence. The eggs agree with Icelandic specimens. 
Caloo Duck is the Shetland name.' 
§ 5801. 7hree.—Iceland, 1851. From Mr. Proctor, 1852. 
§ 5802. One.—Hunde Eiland, Greenland, 5 July, 1848. From 
Mr. Argent, 1852. 
The name and date on a piece of paper stitched to the egg through 
the holes. The writing appears to be Danish. I find that Hunde 
1 (Canon Tristram possessed and shewed me the manuscript catalogue of 
Prof. Macgillivray’s Egeg-collection, in his own handwriting and dated 20 June, 
1849. In it was entered a specimen of Harelda glacialis, “Shetland. Presented 
by Dr. Th. Aitken”; but from no mention of it being made in the Professor’s 
work he either doubted or overlooked it. The egg, so far as I remember, was not 
in the Canon’s possession. Dr, Saxby (Birds of Shetland, p. 257) is said to have 
had eggs, taken in the islands, brought to him as those of this species, with which 
they agreed very closely, but his own observations forbad the belief that it breeds 
there. Mr. A. H. Evans (Vertebr. Fauna of Shetland, p. 139) has an ege which 
seems to be a Long-tailed Duck’s, found with four others in July, 1887, on a 
‘“brow ” above some rocks near Cunningburgh in the south of Mainland, but the 
captor could only describe the Duck as one which he had not found breeding 
before— brown or grey-coloured, with light colour about the head,”—Ep. ] 
