OLD SQUAW. 
LONG-TAILED DUCK. SOU-SOUTHERLY. COCKAWEE. 
Clangula HYEMALIS. 
Char. Male : back, rump, and tail black, the central tail-feathers very 
long; crown and neck white; cheeks brownish gray, and below the gray 
a patch o£ brown ; breast and wings black, the wings varied with white ; 
belly white ; bill pale pink, nail and base black ; legs and feet leaden blue, 
the webs darker. Length 20 to 23 inches ; middle tail-feathers 8 to 9 
inches. The female has the crown and upper parts dark brown ; a dark 
stripe behind the eyes; under parts white; tail without long feathers. 
iVest. Concealed under a bush, sometimes amid a tussock of rank 
herbage, — made of a few weed-stems and some grass, and thickly lined 
with down. 
Eg^s. 5-7; pale grayish green, sometimes greenish buff; 2.10 X 1.50. 
This elegant and noisy Duck, known so generally in the 
Southern States by the nickname of “ South-Southerly,” from 
its note, and in most other parts by the appellation of “ Old 
Squaws,” or “ Old Wives,” is an Arctic inhabitant of both con- 
tinents, and abounds in the glacial seas of America, where it 
is seen commonly associated with the Eider, Surf, Black, and 
other Ducks of congenial habits, who invariably prefer the 
frail but, to them, productive dominion of the sea to the land 
or its more peaceful waters. So strong is the predilection of 
