SPECIES 24. rfNrfS GLACMLIS. 



LONG-TAILED DUCK. 

 [Plate LXX. Fig. 1, Male.'] 



Le Canard A longue queue de Terre JVeuve, Buiss. vi, p. 382. 18. 

 BUFF, ix, p. 202. PL Enl 1008.~EwD.jp/. 280. ^rc. Zool. 

 Ao. 501. LATH. Syn. in, p. 528. PEALE'S Jlluseum, JVb. 



2810.* 



THIS Duck is very generally known along the shores of 

 the Chesapeake Bay by the name of South Southerly, from 

 the singularity of its cry, something imitative of the sound of 

 those words, and also, that when very clamorous they are sup- 

 posed to betoken a southerly wind; on the coast of New Jersey 

 they are usually called Old Wives. They are chiefly salt wa- 

 ter Ducks, and seldom ramble far from the sea. They inhabit 

 our bays and coasts during the winter only; are rarely found in 

 the marshes, but keep in the channel, diving for small shell 

 fish, which are their principal food. In passing to and from the 

 bays, sometimes in vast flocks, particularly towards evening, 

 their loud and confused noise may be heard in calm weather at 

 the distance of several miles. They fly very swiftly, take short 

 excursions, and are lively restless birds. Their native regions 

 are in the north, where great numbers of them remain during 

 the whole year; part only of the vast family migrating south to 



* Anas Glacialis, GMEL. Syst. i, p. 529, JVb. 30; A. kyemalis, Id. JVb. 29; Mer- 

 gusfurcifer, Id. 548, .Vb. l.Ind. O r n. p- 864, JVb. 82, et var.; Mergus furcifer, 

 Id- p. 832, No. 8; Gen. Syn. p. 528, No. 73; Id. p. 529, yuung male called the 

 female; Id. p. 531, var. *fl.; Forked Merganser, Id. sup. n, p. 339, No. 5. Le 

 Canard a loiigue queue d'hlande, BRISS. vi, p. 379. La Sarcelle dt Ferroe, Id. p. 

 466, pi. 40. fig. 2 BUFF, ix, p. 278. PI. 1008, old male; 999, yearling. 

 EDWARDS, pi 280, old male, pi. 156, young male. Br. Zool. JYo. 283. BE- 

 WICK, u, p. 327. Cunard de JWillon, TEMM. Jfa. d^Orn. p. 860. 



