LONG-TAILED DUCK. 



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NATATORES. 



ANATIDM. 



THE LONG-TAILED DUCK. 



Fuligula glacialis. 



Anas (jlacialis, Long-tailed Duck, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 268. 



MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 375. 



Clangula FLEM. Brit. An. p. 121. 



Harelda Hareld, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 363. 



JENYNS, Brit. Yert. p. 247. 



Duck, GOULD, Birds of Europe. 



Anas Canard de Midon, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 860 



THIS beautiful species, remarkable for great diversity in 

 the appearance of its plumage, depending on age, sex, or 

 the season of the year, is another winter visitor to the 

 British shores, and that, too, only in small numbers, except 

 the weather is severe ; for this bird remains in the north 

 as long as any surface of water remains unfrozen. The 

 specimens obtained in this country are also, for the most 

 part, young birds of the previous season, which are ob- 



