duck. 339 



or perhaps very rarely. In North America is in equal plenty ; called 

 at New York the Bine Bill ;# from thence as far north at least as 

 Hudson's Bay, at which it is said to breed ; and from whence I 

 have received it. The flesh is very finely flavoured, and tender. Is 

 seen as far south as Georgia, but not common, only met with at the 

 end of winter and beginning of the spring, when it departs northward. 



103.— LONG-TAILED DUCK. 



Anas glacialis, Ind. Orn. ii. 864. Lin. i. 203. Gm. Lin. i. 529. Scop. i. No. 74. 



Brim. No. 75— 79. Mull. No. 122. Phil. Trans. Ixii. 418. Besch. d. Berl. Nat. 



ii. S. 556. Lin. Trans, xii. 555. pi. 30. f. 3, 4— the trachea. Tern. Man. 559. 



Id. Ed. 2d. 861. Parry's App. ccviii. 

 Anas hyemalis, Lin. i. 202, Fn. suec. No. 125. Fn. groenl. No. 45. 

 — — longicauda Islandica, Bris. vi. 379. Id. Svo. ii. 46. 



■ caudacuta, Havelda, Rati, 145. Will. 290. 



Clangula glacialis, Northern Garrot, Ross's Voy. App. ii. p. xlviiii. 



Die Winterente, Eisente, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 654. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. 1124. 



Canard a longue Queue de Terre neuve, Buf. ix, 202, 



Canard de Miclon, PI. enl. 1008. 



Swallow-tailed Shieldrake, Will. Engl. 364. 



Long-tailed Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 528, 529. Br. Zool.Yu No. 283. ld.fol. 156. pi. 



Q. 7. Id. 1812, ii. 268. pi. 44, 45, Var. Edw. pi. 280. Id. pi. 156— young 



male. Arct. Zool. ii. 501. Id. Sup. p. 76. Will. Engl. 364. § V. Bew. ii. pi. 



p. 363. Lewin, vii. pi, 262. Don. pi. 111. Wale. pi. 70. f. 1, 2. Pult. Dors. 



p. 20. ,Am. Orn. viii, 93. pi. 70. f. 1, 2. Lin. Trans, xii. 554. pi. 30. f. 3, 4— 



the trachea, Orn. Diet. Supp. last Plate, f. 3, 4. 



SIZE of a Wigeon ; length twenty-two inches ; extent of wing 

 twenty-nine ; weight twenty-four ounces. The Bill is a little 

 gibbous at the base, black, with a transverse mark of red in the 

 middle, and an oval nail at the end ; irides red ; head white, varied 

 with different coloured spots ; the forehead, cheeks, and round the 

 eyes, violet ash-colour, but the front and orbits are white ; on the 

 temples a large oval dusky spot, and behind that, beneath the ears, 



* Kakn. Trav. i. 137. By some the Sprig-tail. 

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