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eggs are of a pale greenish-white, with a tinge of buff 

 colour ; the length two inches two lines, by one inch 

 and a half in breadth. These birds are expert divers, 

 feeding in shallow water, on mollusca, Crustacea, and 

 marine insects. In the stomachs of two examined by 

 myself, I found the remains of our common mussel and 

 shrimps. The flesh of this species is coarse, hard, and 

 fishy. 



This Duck is found among the Faroe Islands ; and the 

 notes of Richard Dann, Esq., in reference to this species in 

 Scandinavia, are as follows : " The Long-tailed Ducks 

 are very numerous on the coasts of Norway and Sweden 

 during the winter, but are seen in greatest numbers off 

 the coast of Scona. Towards the middle of March they 

 begin to draw north, and by the latter end of May 

 appear in vast numbers on the streams and lakes in the 

 mountain-range which divides Finmark from Swedish 

 Lapland. As the season advances they take themselves 

 to the more elevated and smaller lakes, but in Lapland 

 are not generally found within the range of the dwarf- 

 birch, I have seen great numbers on the Calix lakes. 

 In the Dofre Field, a few straggling pairs make their 

 appearance and breed. They arrived the last week in 

 May, on the lakes and swamps within the range of the 

 birch, and continued to increase in numbers until the 

 14th of June, when I lost sight of them on the lakes 

 where they had been most abundant. On ascending, 

 however, to the small lakes in the valleys still higher 

 up the mountains, and at an elevation where the creeping- 

 birch and dwarf-willow can only vegetate, I again found 

 them in pairs the last week in June ; the ice had not 

 then entirely disappeared on these lakes. In July, I again 

 lost sight of the females, but frequently found, and shot 

 the males in the most elevated lakes and small pools 



