LONG-TAILED DUCK OF NEWFOUNDLAND. 
yet we may perceive that both these birds are 
the same, by the two long shafts which pro- 
ject from the tail, and by the fine disposition 
of the colours. White covers the head, and 
the neck, as far as the top of the breast 
and back ; there is onlv a band of orange ful- 
vous which descends from the eves on both 
sides of the neck ; the bellv, and also two 
bunches of long, narrow feathers, lying be- 
tween the back and the w-ing, are of tlie same 
white with the head and the neck ; the rest 
of the plumage is black, as well as the bill ; 
the legs are of a blackish red, and a small 
edging of membrane may be observed running 
along the margin of the inner toe, and below the 
little hind-toe. The length of the two shafts of 
the tail increases the total bulk of this Duck, 
yet it is scarcely equal to a Common Duck. 
Mr. Edwards suspei51:s," adds ButFon, ** with 
every probability, that his Long-Tailed Duck 
from Hudson's Bay, is the fem.ale of this. The 
size, the figure, and even the plumage, are nearly 
the same ; only tJie back of the latter is less 
variegated with white and black, and the 
plumage is on the whole browner. 
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