HARELDA.] AVES NATATORES. 247 



GEN. 98. HARELDA, Leach. 



259. H. glacialis, Steph. (Long-tailed Hareld.) 

 Crown and nape white ; a large chestnut patch on the 

 sides of the neck : bill black, with a transverse orange 

 band : legs yellow. 



Anas glacialis, Temm. Man. d'Orn. torn. n. p. 860. Sabine in 

 Linn. Trans, vol. xn. p. 555. Long-tailed Duck, Mont. Orn. 

 Diet, fy Supp. Bew. Brit. Birds, vol. n. p. 359. Long-tailed 

 Hareld, Selb. Illust. vol. n. p. 363. pi. 61. (Trachea,) Linn. 

 Trans, vol. xn. pi. 30. f. 3, & 4. 



DIMENS. Entire length, central tail-feathers included, twenty-two 

 inches. MONT. 



DE SCRIPT. (Adult male in winter.) Crown of the head, nape, front 

 and lower part of the neck, pure white ; cheeks and chin ash-gray ; on 

 each side of the upper part of the neck a large patch of chestnut-brown : 

 breast, back, wings, rump, and the two elongated central tail-feathers, 

 brownish black: scapulars, and lateral tail-feathers, white; the former 

 long, narrow, and acuminated : flanks cinereous ; belly and abdomen 

 white : bill black, with a broad transverse band of deep orange before 

 the nostrils: irides reddish yellow: legs yellowish; the membranes of 

 the toes dusky. (Adult female.) ** Forehead, chin, and eyebrows, whitish 

 ash ; crown of the head, and the large patch on the sides of the neck, dusky 

 ash : nape, front and lower part of the neck, as well as the belly and 

 abdomen, pure white : breast variegated with brown and dark ash-colour : 

 back, scapulars, and wing-coverts, blackish brown, the feathers edged and 

 tipped with reddish ash : the rest of the upper parts sooty brown : tail short, 

 the central feathers not elongated ; blackish brown, edged with white : 

 bill bluish ; the transverse band yellowish : irides light brown : legs bluish 

 gray." TEMM. (Male in summer.) "The whole under part of the neck, 

 and breast, black ; sides of the head, and a little beyond the eye, brownish 

 white ; round the eye some white feathers ; from the bill a black line runs 

 on the top of the head to the crown, which is black ; back of the neck chiefly 

 black, but at a small distance below the crown with a few white feathers 

 intermixed ; the black of the back of the neck extends down the back, but 

 in the centre of the upper part of the back near the neck is a patch of 

 black feathers edged with ferruginous ; scapulars long and narrow, black 

 in the centre, and edged with ferruginous white, the longer ones having 

 more white ; wings brownish black, the quills being palest ; lower belly 

 and sides to the rump, and under tail-coverts, white, a line of black de- 

 scending between the white from the back to the tail." SAB. (Young of 

 the year.) Not very different from the adult female : face, crown, occiput, 

 and nape, grayish white, mottled with brown and ash-colour; on the 

 sides of the neck a large dusky patch ; throat and upper part of the neck 

 in front, belly and abdomen, white ; lower part of the neck in front, and 

 upper part of the breast, spotted and variegated with brownish ash ; sides 

 of the breast with transverse crescent- shaped bars of the same colour; 

 back, and rest of the upper parts, deep brown ; the scapulars edged with 

 ash-colour, and some of the shorter ones with white feathers intermixed ; 

 tail short, the two middle feathers not elongated. (Egg.) Greenish 

 yellow white : long. diam. two inches two lines ; trans, diam. one inch six 

 lines and a half. 



A regular winter visitant in the Orkneys, and on the northern coasts 

 of England and Scotland. Seldom met with in the southern parts of 



