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Anas. 50. Glacialis. 2c j, and Hyemalis, 202. 

 29. Eclw. t. 156. ,allow-tail. Br. Zool. 



Faun. Am, Sept. 17. 



Churchill River, N" 12. 



At Churchill River the Indians call this species, 

 Har-har-vey ; it corresponds with Edwards's 

 description and drawing, plate 156, but dif- 

 fers much from Linneus's inexadl description 

 of the Anas Hyemalis, to which he, how- 

 ever, quotes Edwards. Upon the whole it is 

 almost without a doubt that the bird repre- 

 sented by Edwards, plate 280, and Br. Zool. 

 folio, plate Q. 7, and quoted by Linneus for 

 his Anas glacialis, is the male, and that the 

 bird figured by Edwards t. 156, and quoted by 

 Linneus for the Anas Hyemalis, is the female, 

 of one and the same species. Linneus men- 

 tions a white body (in his Anas hyemalis) 

 which in Edw. Tab. 156, and in the So- 

 ciety's specimen, is all brown and dusky, ex- 

 cept the belly, temples, a spot on the back 

 of the head, and the sides of the rump, 

 which are white. Linneus says, that the 

 temples are black ; in the specimen now sent 

 over, and in Mr. Edwards's figure, which 

 Linneus quotes, they are white; the breast, 

 back, and wings, are not black as he says, 

 but rather brown and dusky. A further 

 proof, that Linneus's Anas Glacialis and Hye- 

 malis are the same, is that the feet in both 

 t. 156 and 280 of Edwards are red, and the 

 bill black, with an orange spot. 



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