LONG-TAILED DUCK OF NEWFOUNDLAND. 
toes are of a dusky red. The webs of the 
feet are black. It has a little fin, or lateral 
web, on the inside of each of the inner toes, 
and on the under sides of it's small backward 
toes." 
This Duck, Edwards also informs us, was 
taken on the fishing banks of Newfoundland; 
and, in 1734, he figured it on the copper-plate 
immediately from nature. He adds, *' I am 
doubtful whether this bird is not of the same 
species with the Long-Tailed Duck from Hud- 
son's Bay, figured in my History of Birds. 
On comparison, I think it possible that they 
may be male and female; their measures and 
the figures of their bills and feet, agreeing very 
neariv. But," he concludes, I submit this 
opinion to the farther enquiry of naturalists. 
I believe mine to be the first figure and descrip- 
tion given of this Duck." 
BufFon, under his article Long-Tailed 
Duck from Newfoundland," observes that 
" the coloured figure of Edwards represents 
those parts brown which, in the Duck called 
Miclon, are black, in our Planches Enlumin^cs ; 
