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the bays and immediate vicinity of these islands till the 

 month of April. A few may occasionally extend their flight, 

 stretching as far even as the coast of Northumberland, but 

 this would seem to be the extreme limit of their equatorial 

 movement, as the capture of an individual to the south of 

 this line is of very rare occurrence. This is a pelagic species, 

 and is seldom seen in fresh water ; its habits in many respects 

 resembling those of the Eiders and Scoters. It dives well, 

 Food. an( J thus obtains on our shores the greater part of its food, 

 viz. testaceous mollusca and Crustacea. Its flight is strong 

 and rapid, though seldom at any height, or to any great dis- 

 tance at once. The singularity of its cry has caused it, in 

 the countries it frequents, to receive some peculiar names, in- 

 dicative of the sounds emitted ; thus, in the north of Eng- 

 land and Scotland, it is known by the whimsical appellative 

 Coal-and-candle-light ; in the United States, WILSON informs 

 us, that it goes by the title of South Southerly ; in Kamt- 

 schatka, the natives call it A-an-gticJie; and the North 

 American Indians Caccawee, and Ha-ha-way ; all which con- 

 junctive terms are, to a certain degree, expressive of its note. 

 When congregated together, this cry is often uttered, and 

 particularly towards the evening, at which time it may be 

 heard to a very great distance. This bird inhabits the whole 

 of the Arctic regions, being equally abundant both in the 

 parts belonging to North America, and in those situated on 

 Nest, &c. the Asiatic and European continents. It breeds on the sea- 

 coasts, and adjoining islands, making a nest of grass, or such 

 other soft materials, as the situation supplies ; and this,, as 

 incubation proceeds, it lines with the down plucked from its 

 own body, which, for fineness and elasticity, is not inferior 

 to that of the Eiders. Its eggs are from six to ten, of a 

 bluish or skim-milk white, and nearly equal in size to those 

 of the Common Wild Duck. The formation of the trachea 

 of this species is very curious, and differs in some points from 

 that of any of the nearly allied genera. Immediately beneath 

 the upper larynx it is slightly dilated, and the rings rather 



