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GENUS AHARELDA. 
The Long-tailed Duck is the only species comprised in 
this genus. 
LONG-TAILED DUCK, OR ICE-DUCK. 
(Harelda glacials.) 
The name of “Sea-Pheasant,” by which this bird is 
known in some parts, is deservedly bestowed on account of the 
enormous length of the tail feathers. It is a winter visitor to 
Great Britain, being seen pretty regularly on the North and 
East Coasts, where it arrives during the early autumn. Its 
breeding place is in more northern latitudes, where, in winter, 
it exists in large flocks, which break up into pairs at the approach 
of the breeding season. The Long-tailed Duck, which is about 
the size of a Wigeon, is described by Seebohm and Mr. 
Harvie-Brown as being tame and easy to approach, especially 
during the breeding season. In Ireland it has been shot several 
times, Sir Ralph P. Gallwey states that on one occasion fifty were 
seen feeding at the entrance to the Moy Estuary. Its food 
consists of shell-fish and water insects which it obtains by diving. 
Seebohm describes the nest as a hollow in the grass, lined 
with down, containing from six to seven eggs, and situated some 
way from the water near inlets of the sea and large lakes 
These birds undergo considerable changes of plumage during 
the year. 
The following information has been given to me by Mr. 
Blauuw, of Gooilust, Holland :— 
“( Harelda glacialis),—I possess a young male of this species 
now a little over twelve months of age. The young bird was caught 
in the autumn of 1905. This species is very difficult to keep alive in con- 
finement, and the present specimen is the only one I have ever been able 
