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Mr. Robert Dunn, in his useful little book, says, " This 

 species, which is there called ' Calloo,' is very plentiful 

 both in Orkney and Shetland, arriving about the middle 

 of October, and departing again in March. It is to be 

 met with in all the inlets or voes, generally in large flocks, 

 never far from the land, feeding upon small shell-fish and 

 star-fish. When on the wing it utters a musical cry, 

 something like t calloo,' which may be heard to a great 

 distance ; from this cry it derives its provincial name." 



The Long-tailed Duck is well known in Denmark, and 

 among its numerous islands. Mr. W. C. Hewitson, in 

 his work on the Eggs of our British Birds, says, "we 

 met with many whilst in Norway; and although those 

 which we shot and dissected had every appearance of being 

 shortly about to breed, yet they were always in flocks, 

 roving from place to place, and apparently unattached to 

 any particular spot; sometimes sweeping past, within a 

 few yards of us, with great rapidity, uttering their 

 strikingly-wild and most interesting cries. Several eggs 

 of this bird were brought home by the officers of the 

 Arctic expeditions ; for the one figured, I am indebted 

 to the liberality of my friend, Mr. G. C. Atkinson, who, 

 during an excursion in Iceland, had the good fortune to 

 meet with a nest of the Long-tailed Duck ; it was placed 

 near the margin of a small lake, and lined with the down 

 of the female ; the eggs were six in number, but would 

 most probably have been increased to ten or twelve, the 

 usual number of this tribe of birds." Mr. Proctor, who 

 also visited Iceland, sent me word that he found this 

 Duck rather common there, making its nest generally 

 among low bushes, by the edge of the fresh water ; the 

 nest, composed of a few stems of grass, and well lined 

 with down ; the eggs, from six to ten in number ; in 

 one instance twelve eggs were found in one nest. The 



