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the adult male; this is the bird which Buffon calls, canard a 
longue queue; that which Ray terms Anas caudacuta, Haveldas 
Mr. Latham defcribes as the young male. (8) ‘The female had been 
defcribed by Mr. Pennant in the Arctic Zoology*: Mr. Latham 
‘ makes it the (y-) of Anas Glacialis:—the fame author has added 
further, the Querquedula ferroenfis, of Briffon, or Sarcelle de Ferree, 
of Buffon, as the (0.) of the fame fpecies. 
Thefe Birds frequent the more northern parts of the world, fuch 
as Sweden, Lapland, Greenland, &c. and only vifit the Englith coatts 
in very rigorous winters. In the Orknies they are feen in flocks 
from O@ober to April. Thefe Birds living chiefly On the water, 
dive and fwim well, and fubfift on fmall thell-fith. They build 
their nefts among the grafs, &c. on the fea fhore. The variety 
mentioned by Mr. Latham, which is called O*Edel by the inha- 
bitants of the Ferroe ifles, has the black ftreak down the middle of 
the crown to the hind head, as in our fpecimen, from which we 
have been led to confider ue Bird a variety alfo, 
The length of our Bird is twenty-one inches. 
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* Vol, Il. p. 76. 
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