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Genus HARELDA, Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. xii, 

 pt. 2, p. 174 (1824). 



Harelda, Latinized from Haveld or Havelda, the Icelandic name. Briinnich 

 (Orn. Bor. 1764, p. 17) says it is called in the Faroes Oedel, and in Iceland 

 Ha-Ella or Ha-Old. 



Harelda glacialis. LONG-TAILED DUCK. 



Anas glacial! s, Linnaeus, S. N. i. p. 203 (1766). 

 Harelda glacialis, Macg. v. p. 192 ; Gray, p. 203 ; Gould, v. 



pi. 33 ; Harting, p. 66 ; Dresser, vi. p. 617. 

 Anas glacialis, Naum. xii. p. 210. 

 Fuligula glacialis, Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 355 ; id. ed. 3, iii. p. 357 ; 



Hewitson, p. 431. 

 The Long-tailed Duck, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 255. 



Glacialis = living among the ice, glacles. 



Breeds sparingly in Shetland, and is tolerably abundant 

 from autumn to spring on the northern coasts of the United 

 Kingdom, but rarer southwards. It is a circumpolar species 

 which migrates south in winter in both hemispheres. 



Genus HENICONETTA, G. R. Gray, List of Gen. of B. 

 p. 75 (1840). 



Heniconetta, from eviKos = single, unique, and vr\rra = a Duck. 



Heniconetta stelleri. STELLEE'S DUCK. 



Anas stelleri, Pallas, Spic. Zool. fasc. vi. p. 35 (1769). 

 Stelleria dispar, Macg. v. p. 164. 

 Anas dispar, Naum. xii. p. 240. 

 Eniconetta stelleri, Gray., p. 204; Gould, v. pi. 25. 

 Somateria dispar, Yarr. ed. 2, iii. p. 305 ; id. ed. 3, iii. 



p. 306. 



Somateria stelleri, Harting, p. 164; Dresser, vi. p. 649. 

 Steller's Western Duck, Yarr. ed. 1, iii. p. 208, 



