16 LONG-TAILED DUCK. 
LONG-TAILED DUCK. (Anas glacialis.) 
PLATE LXX.—Fic. 1, MAE. 
Le Canard alongue queue de Terre Neuve, Briss. vi. p. 382, 18.—Buff. ix. p. 202, 
Pl. enl. 1008.—Edw. pl. 280.—Arct. Zool. No. 501.—Lath. Syn. iii. p. 
528.- Peale’s Museum, No. 2810. 
HARELDA GLACIALIS.—LEacu.* 
Anas glacialis and Anas hyemalis, Linn. Syst. i. p. 202 and 203.—Lath. Ind. 
li. p. 864.—Fuligula glacialis, Bonap. Synop. p. 395.—Long-tailed Duck, Mont. 
Ornith. Dict. i. and Supp.—Bew. Br. Birds, ii. 563.—Long-tailed Hareld, 
Selby’s Illust. Br. Ornith. pl. 61, m. and f.—Harelda glacialis, Worth. Zool. 
li. p. 460. 
Tus duck is very generally known along the shores of the 
Chesapeake Bay by the name of sowth-southerly, from the 
singularity of its cry, something imitative of the sound of those 
words, and also that, when very clamorous, they are supposed 
to betoken a southerly wind ; on the coast of New Jersey they 
are usually called old wives. They are chiefly salt-water 
* This bird forms the type of Dr Leach’s genus Harelda. It is 
remarkable for the decided change between the plumage of the breed- 
ing season and that of the winter, bearing analogy, in many particulars, 
to the Tringze and their allies—for the prolongation of the scapulary 
feathers, and for the narrow lengthened tail. It is a native of both 
continents, but in Britain is only met with during winter, in the dress 
of that season, or in the plumage of the first year. It keeps to the open 
sea, and seldom ventures inland to rivers or lakes. The following is a 
description of a specimen killed on the Ist May, from the “ Northern 
Zoology,” and which agrees nearly with skins in my possession. “The 
whole upper plumage, the central pairs of tail feathers, and the under- . 
plumage to the fore part of the belly, brownish black ; the lesser quills, 
paler. A triangular patch of feathers, between the shoulders and the 
scapulars, broadly bordered with orange brown.” (In the winter 
plumage, the long scapulars are pure white, and form a beautiful con- 
trast, hanging over the dark quills.) “Sides of head from the bill to 
the ears, ash grey ; eye stripe and posterior under-plumage, pure white ; 
flanks, sides of the rump, and lateral tail-feathers, white stained with 
brown ; axillaries and inner wing-coverts, clove brown ; bill, black, with 
an orange belt (bright vermilion) before the nostrils.”—Ep. 
