ANAS GLACIALIS. (linn.) 



LONG-TAILED-DUCK. 



The Long-tailed-Duck, like most of the genus, deserts us 

 during the summer season, and repairs to more northerly 

 countries to breed. We met with many whilst in Norway ; 

 and although those which we shot and dissected had every 

 appearance of being shortly about to breed, yet they were 

 always in flocks, roving from place to place, and apparently 

 unattached to any particular spot ; sometimes sweeping past, 

 within a few yards of us, with great rapidity, uttering their 

 strikingly wild and most interesting cries. Several eggs of 

 this bird were brought home by some of the officers of one of 

 the Arctic expeditions ; for the one figured I am indebted to 

 the liberality of my friend, Mr. G. C Atkinson, who, during 

 an excursion in Iceland, had the good fortune to meet with a 

 nest of the Long-tailed-Duck ; it was placed near the margin 

 of a small lake, and lined with the down of the female ; the 

 eggs were six in number, but would, most probably, have 

 been increased to ten or twelve, the usual number of this tribe 

 of birds. 



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