ClafsII. S HIE L DRAKE. 469 



tells us that thefe birds are found in great abundance? 

 in Connaughi in Ireland^ in the month of February only; 

 and that they are much efteemed for their delicacy. 



XVILThcSWALLOWTAIL'DSHIELDRAKE. 



Wil. orn. 364. Norvegis Ungle, Angeltafke v. 



Raiifyn. anj. 145. Troefoerer. Ferocn/iiiaOtdd. 



Long tailed Duck. Ed-w. av, JJIandis Ha-Ella v. Ha-Old. 



280. Incolis Chrijiianfoe GadifTen, 



Le Canard a longue queue Klaefhahn Dykker. Brunnich. 



d'Iflande. Brijfonuv. vi. 379. 75. 76. 



Anas glacialis. Lin-Jyft> 2°3. Br, Zoo/. 156. 



THIS is inferior in fize to the former. The Defer, 

 bill is ftiort, black at the tip and bafe, orange 

 colored in the middle; the cheeks are of a pale 

 brown : the hind part of the head, and the neck both 

 before and behind are white ; the fides of the upper 

 part of the neck are marked with a large dusky bar, 

 pointing downwards ; the breaft and back are of a 

 deep chocolate color ; the fcapulars are white, long, 

 narrow, and fharp pointed. The coverts of the 

 wings, and greater quil-feathers dusky -, the leffer of a 

 reddifti brown : the belly white ; the four middle 

 feathers of the tail are black; and near four inches 

 longer than the others, which are white : the legs 

 dusky. Thefe birds breed in the mod northern parts 

 of the world, and only vifit our coafts in the fevered 

 winters. 



XVIII. The 



