OLD SQUAW. 
357 
than disgust those happy few who may be willing “ to find 
good in everything.” His peculiar cry is well known to the 
aboriginal sons of the forest, and among the Crees the species 
is called 'Hah- ha-way, — so much like the syllables I have 
given above that many might imagine my additions no more 
than a version of the same. But 1 may perhaps be allowed to 
say that the notes I had taken on the subject were made two 
years previous to the publication of Dr. Richardson’s “Zool- 
ogy,” whence 1 learn this coincidence of the name and sound 
as given by the aborigines of the North. This Duck is no less 
known to the Canadian voyagers, who have celebrated it in 
their simple effusions by the name of the “ Cackawee.” 
In the course of the winter the Long-tailed Ducks wander 
out into the bays and inlets nearly if not quite to the extremity 
of the United States coasts ; and in the spring, voyaging along 
the unruffled bosom of the great Mississippi with the many 
thousands of other water-fowl which penetrate by this route 
into the interior, we find among the crowding throng some 
small flocks of the present species, who proceed as far as the 
banks of the Missouri. In Sintzbergen, Iceland, and along 
the grassy shores of Hudson Bay, they make their nests about 
the middle of June, lining the interior with the down from 
their breasts, w'hic-h is equally soft and elastic with that pro- 
duced by tlie Kider. 
These birds abound in Greenland, Lapland, Russia, and 
Kamtschatka, are seen about St. Petersburg, and from Octo- 
ber to April many flocks jtass the winter in the Orkneys. 
They are only accidental visitors on the Great Lakes in Ger- 
many and along the borders of the Baltic, and are often seen, 
but never in flocks, upon the maritime coasts of Holland. 
The flesh of the old birds is but little esteemed, yet that of the 
young is pretty good food. 
The Old Squaw breeds at extremely high latitudes, being more 
Arctic in its distribution than any other species of Duck. It win- 
ters in numbers along the coast of south Greenland, and is common 
all along the Atlantic to the Southern States. 
