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In a female, the intestine is 57 inches long; its width in the duodenal part 

 3 twelfths; the coeca 4 inches long, 3 twelfths in breadth at the widest part, 

 at the base 1 twelfth, and toward the end 2 twelfths; their distance from the 

 extremity 3 inches. 



LONG-TAILED DUCK. 



^"Fuligula glacialis, Linn. 



PLATE CCCCX — Males, Female, and Unfledged Young. 



In the course of one of my rambles along the borders of a large fresh- 

 water lake, near Bras-d ? or, in Labrador, on the 2Sth of July, 1S33, I was 

 delighted by the sight of several young broods of this species of Duck, all 

 carefully attended to by their anxious and watchful mothers. Not a male 

 bird was on the lake, which was fully two miles distant from the sea, and I 

 concluded that in this species, as in many others, the males abandon the 

 females after incubation has commenced. I watched their motions a good 

 while, searching at the same time for the nests, one of which I was not long 

 in discovering. Although it was quite destitute of anything bearing the 

 appearance of life, it still contained the down which the mother had plucked 

 from herself for the purpose of keeping her eggs warm. It was placed under 

 an alder bush, among rank weeds, not more than eight or nine feet from the 

 edge of the water, and was formed of rather coarse grass, with an upper 

 layer of finer weeds, which were neatly arranged, while the down filled the 

 bottom of the cavity, now apparently flattened by the long sitting of the 

 bird. The number of young broods in sight induced me to search for more 

 nests, and in about an hour I discovered six more, in one of which I was 

 delighted to find two rotten eggs. They measured 2 inches and -§- long, by 

 1^ broad, were of a uniform pale yellowish-green, and quite smooth. 



My young companions had, unfortunately for me, walked that morning to 

 Blanc Sablon, about thirty miles distant, down the Straits of Belle Isle; and 

 having no dog to assist me in procuring some of the young Ducks, I was 

 obliged to enact the part of one myself, although the thermometer that day 

 was 45° 50', and the atmosphere felt chilly. I gave chase to the younglings, 

 which made for different parts of the shore, as I followed them up to my 



