Winter 

 plumage. 



HAHELD. NATATORES. HABELDA. 363 



LONG-TAILED HARELD. 



HABELDA GLACIALIS, Leach. 

 PLATE LXI. 



Harelda glacialis, Steph. Shaw's Zool. 12. 175. pi. 58. 



Anas glacialis, Linn. Syst. 1. 203. 20 Gmel Syst. 1. 529 Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 864. sp. 82. Wils. Amer. Orn. 8. 98. pi. 70. 1. and 2. 

 Anas longicauda, ex Insula novae terrse, Briss. Orn. 6. 382. 

 Canard a longue queue, Buff. Ois. 9. 202. 



Canard de Miclon, Buff. PL Enl. 1008. Temm. Man. d'Orn. 2. 860. 

 Eisente Winter Ente Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 1124 Meyer. Tass- 



chenb. Deut. 2. 511. 



Swallow-tailed Shieldrake, Will. (Angl.) 364. 

 Long-tailed Duck, Perm. Br. Zool. 2. 599. No. 283 Edward's Glean. 



t. 288 Lath. Syn. 6. 528. Lewin's Br. Birds, 7- 262 Mont. Ornith. 



Diet, and Sup. Bewick's Br. Birds, ed. 1826, p. t. 359. 



Anas hyemalis, Linn. Syst. 202. 29 Gmel. Syst. 529. sp, 29. ^| 



Anas caudacuta Harelda, Rail, Syn. 145. 14 Will. 290. f Summer 



Anas longicauda Islandica, Briss. Orn. 7. 399 No. 17. | P luma e. 



Long-tailed Duck, Edward, t. 156 Lath. Syn. 6. 529. 73. 



Anas glacialis, var. y. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 865 Penn. Arct. ZooL 2. \ 



App. 76. ( 



Querquedula ferroensis, Briss. Orn. 6. 466. t. 40. f. 2. f Young ' 

 La SarceUe de Feroe', Buff. Ois. 9. 278 f . Id. PL Enl. 999. 



PROVINCIAL. Calvo, Coal-and -candle-light, Sharp. tailed Duck, Long- 

 tailed Shieldrake, 



LIKE most of the present subfamily, the Long-tailed 

 Hareld is an inhabitant of the Arctic Seas, and is one of the 

 few species whose summer migration extends to the highest 

 latitudes yet visited, as we find it mentioned in all lists of 

 birds furnished by the recent voyages of discovery to those 

 desolate and ice-bound regions, where it abides whilst any 

 portion of the sea remains unfrozen, and only migrates to the Periodical 

 southward when compelled by the consequent failure of food V1S1 

 in its favourite resort. Hence, it is amongst the number of 

 our winter visitants, and, as might naturally be expected, is 

 most numerous and best known towards the northern extre- 

 mity of the kingdom. In the Orkney and Shetland Isles it 

 generally appears in considerable flocks late in October or 

 about the beginning of November, and continues to haunt 



