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PLATE CCLXV. 



LONG-TAILED DUCK. 



ANAS GLACIALIS. 



The Long-tailed Duck is a winter visitant in the northern 

 parts of Great Britain, but very rarely met with south of the 

 coast of Northumberland. The native region of this species 

 is as far north as travellers have ever yet penetrated, and con- 

 sequently as far as where any part of the ocean remains 

 unfrozen, and capable of furnishing it with food. Its 

 numbers are very great, as well on the American coast, 

 from Greenland southward, as on the entire northern coast 

 of Asia arid Europe. 



The locality frequented is invariably the sea-coast, par- 

 ticularly bogs, inlets, and mouths of rivers. 



The present species being only dislodged by the severest 

 frost from its northern summer habitation, it is naturally 

 hardly ever seen to arrive in the autumn before the end of 

 October, or beginning of November, and remains with us 

 until the beginning of April. In the month of December 

 many flocks, each consisting of from thirty to forty indi- 

 viduals, congregate in the Baltic, and literally cover the 

 surface of some of the inlets, amounting to as many as five or 

 six hundred individuals, and thus enliven these quiet spots 



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