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LONG-TAILED DUCK. 



NORTHERN HARELD. CALLOO. COAL-AND-CANDLE-LTOHT. 

 LONG-TAILED SHIELDUAKE. SHARP-TAILED DUCK. 



Anas glacialis, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Clangula glacia/is, FLEMINQ. SELHY. 



Anus A Duck. Glacialis Belonging to ice. 



THIS is yet another of those hardy birds which revel in 

 the cold of the extreme north. It is a well-defined and 

 handsome species. 



They are very plentiful in the hyperborean regions Iceland, 

 Nova Zembla, Spitzbergen, and others, and on the European 

 continent are found in Russia, Denmark, Norway, Lapland, 

 and Sweden, along the shores of the mainland, as well as 

 among the islands of the Baltic. They have been known, 

 too, in Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland, and Holland. 

 In America they are equally abundant in Greenland and the 

 North Georgian Islands, Labrador, Hudson's Bay, and about 

 Newfoundland, and come southwards, in winter, as far as 

 Carolina; likewise in the northern parts of Asia Kamtschatka 

 and others. 



They frequent the offing of the sea-coast, and at times the 

 lochs in its vicinity, but are rarely seen either inland, or often 

 far out at sea. 



In Yorkshire, Edward Dawson, Esq., of Osgodby Hall, shot 

 one, a female, in the month of November, 1852, on Riccall 

 Common. One v/as shot on the coast in the winter of 1851, 

 as Mr. William Felkin, Jun., of Carrington, near Nottingham, 

 has informed me. It has also occurred near Driffield, Doncaster, 

 and York. In Oxfordshire one was killed near Standlake in 



