THE LONG-TAILED DUCK. 
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an interesting account of a whole nursery of young birds that came 
under his observation. 
In March 1834, I was informed by Mr. Glennon, of Dublin, 
that he had at one time received two fresh specimens of the long- 
tailed duck from Wexford; and subsequently, a sportsman resi- 
dent in that town mentioned to me that he had known this bird, 
as well as the pintail, to have been killed in the harbour there. 
In Saunders’s Newsletter of February 13th, 1835, it was said 
that Sir Hussey Vivian, on a late sporting excursion on the estate 
of Sir Robert Gore Booth, in the west of Ireland, had shot the 
Anas glacialis — which was correct : — the specimen was seen by 
some of my ornithological friends. Mr. H. H. Dombrain in- 
formed me that a fine male bird, sent to him in December 1836, 
was caught at Lurgan Green (county of Louth) when asleep, by 
a little girl, who stated that there were two of them, and that she 
chose the prettier one with the long tail — the other had been a 
female or young male. The same gentleman announced a female 
bird as having been shot at Malahide, on the Dublin coast, at the 
end of November 1840, in company with a gadwall. Another 
was killed there in the early part of the winter of 1 843.* I have 
seen one which was stated to have been found dead on the 
beach of Dublin bay on the 27th of October, 1846, where, 
in the winter of 1847-48 and in December 1848, single indivi- 
duals were also obtained;! the last was a female;— the three 
were immature. At the end of February in the last-named year, 
a fresh specimen of an adult bird was purchased in Dublin. 
An old male from the Galway coast, said to have been killed 
in the month of August, has come under my notice. £ Three of 
these ducks were killed in Drogheda Bay in the winter of 1848- 
49, and in the month of March of the latter year an adult male 
was seen there by Mr. R. J. Montgomery, and twice fired at by 
* Rev. Geo. Robinson. f Mr. R. J. Montgomery. 
i In the collection of Mr. J. Watters, juu., Dublin. I am informed by the Rev. 
G. Robinson that an immature bird was shot so early as in the month of August 
(1841 P) in Plymouth Sound, by John Getcombe, Esq. The species is very rare 
there at all times. 
