236 BRITISH BIRDS* EGGS. 



rica is the principal home of this species, where it is well 

 known to naturalists, but it also frequents, in limited num- 

 bers, the continent of Europe, and occasionally the British 

 Islands. It is found in Iceland, frequenting cascades and 

 rapidly-running streams, and building its nest of dry leaves, 

 grass, and reeds, lined with down, among low bushes and 

 water-growing plants. The eggs, from six to eight or per- 

 haps more in number, are of a cream- colour or yellowish- 

 white with a tinge of green. 



THE LONG-TAILED OR NORTHERN HARELD. Harelda 

 glacialis. The Long-tailed Duck, as this species is like- 

 wise termed, is only a winter visitor to our shores, and more 

 rarely met with in the south than on the northern coasts. 

 Its breeding-station^ in Europe are around the lakes of 

 Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland, etc. It is also an 

 American bird, and was found by Audubon breeding by the 

 fresh-water lakes of Labrador. The nest, formed of the 

 stems of grass and reeds, lined with down, is placed by the 

 edge of the fresh water among aquatic plants and brush- 

 wood. The eggs, from six to ten or even twelve in num- 

 ber, are of a yellowish- white or cream-colour tinged with 

 green, closely resembling in respect of colour those of the 

 last preceding species. 



