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of a Pullet. It is the opinion of some au- 
thors that two females, at times, will lay 
their eggs in the same nest, as instances 
are recorded of ten, or twelve eggs, having 
been found in the same place. 
The Long-tailed Duck, does not in tfye 
winter, like many of the other tribes, 
entirely quit their native haunts in the 
northern extremities of the world, but 
considerable numbers remain there, en- 
during its gloomy rigours, as well as 
enjoying the perpetual day, under the 
influence of the unsetting summer's sun. 
Numerous flocks, however, spread them- 
selves southward in the winter, from Green- 
land and Hudson's Bay, as far as New 
York in America ; and from Iceland and 
Spitsbergen, over Lapland, the Russian 
dominions, Sweden, Norway and the 
northern parts of the British Isles, in Eu- 
rope. The same progress of them is observ- 
ed in Asia, where they are met with about 
Kamtschatka, &c. They frequent the lakes 
in the interior of all those parts as well as the 
sea shores. The flocks which visit the Ork- 
ney Isles appear in October, and continue 
