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the windpipe is of an uniform thickness throughout. Captain Ross 

 observes, that the lower portion has six bony ribs on each side, 

 uniting posteriorly, forming a convexity ; anteriorly they advance to 

 complete the tube, but terminating abruptly; they form on each side 

 a ridge of small tuberosities, leaving an open space, broader at the 

 lower than the upper end, &c. 



This species inhabits the northern regions, and now and then in 

 severe weather comes into England, but never in numbers ; met 

 with in the Orknies, in considerable flocks, from October to April ;* 

 on the Continent frequents Sweden, Lapland, and Russia ; seen 

 often in the neighbourhood of St. Petersburgh, also in Kamtschatka ; 

 is found the whole year in Greenland, and adjoining Islands. Feeds 

 on various small shells, which it gets by diving, especially the 

 My til us discors ; it makes the nest in the grass near the water, in 

 the manner of the Eider, and lays five bluish white eggs;f it flies in 

 an undulating manner, and sometimes with the back and sometimes 

 with the belly uppermost ; swims and dives well ; the note of the 

 male imitates the word A-a-glick. The feathers, could they be had 

 in sufficient plenty, are equal in quality to those of the Eider. 



Is met with in India at some seasons, as I have found it 

 represented in drawings from that part of the world, where it is 

 called Degonja. Is found also in North America, from Hudson's 

 Bay to New York ; remains in the former, as in Greenland, the 

 whole year ; called there Hahaway, and sometimes appears numer- 

 ous, flying in large flocks; J the flight short, and near the surface 

 of the water. 



* Arct. Zool. A female once met with in Devonshire— .Orn. Die. Supp. 



f Seldom fewer than ten, and often as far as fourteen or fifteen. — Mr. Hutchins. 



■£ About Chesapeake Bay called South-Southerly, from the cry imitating these words ;' 

 or as some think, when clamorous, it betokens a southerly wind ; at New Jersey known by 

 the name of Old Wife.— Am. Orn. 



