SPECIES 24. JiN^S GLACMLIS. 
LONG-TAILED DUCK. 
[Plate LXX. — Fig. 1, Male.'\ 
Le Canard d longue queue de Terre JSTeuve, Briss. vi, p. 382. 18. 
— Buff. IX, p. 202. — PI. Enl. 1008. — Ewo.pl. 280. — Jlrct. Zool. 
JVo. 501. — Lath. Syn. iii, 2 ). 528. — Peale’s Museum, Ab. 
2810.* 
This Duck is very generally known along the shores of 
the Chesapeake Bay by the name of South Southerly, from 
the singularity of its cry, something imitative of the sound of 
those words, and also, that when very clamorous they are sup- 
posed to betoken a southerly wind; on the coast of New Jersey 
they are usually called Old Wives. They are chiefly salt wa- 
ter Ducks, and seldom ramble far from the sea. They inhabit 
our bays and coasts during the winter only; are rarely found in 
the marshes, but keep in the channel, diving for small shell 
fish, which are their principal food. In passing to and from the 
bays, sometimes in vast flocks, particularly towards evening, 
their loud and confused noise may be heard in calm weather at 
the distance of several miles. They fly very swiftly, take short 
excursions, and are lively restless birds. Their native regions 
are in the north, where great numbers of them remain during 
the whole year; part only of the vast family migrating south to 
* Jlnas Glacialis, Gmel, Syst. i, p. 529, ^o. 30; .i. hyemalis, Id. JVb. 29; Mer- 
gus furcifer, Id. 548, Jfo. 1. — Ind. Orn. p. 864, JSTo. 82, et var.; Mergus furc’fer. 
Id- p. 832, No. 8; Gen. Syn. p. 528, No. 73; Id. p. 529, young male called the 
female; Id. p. 631, var. Jl.; Forked Merganser, Id. sup. ii, p. 339, No. S.^—Le 
Canard d longue queue d'Islande, Briss. vi, p. 379. La Sarcelle de Ferroe, Id. p. 
466, pi. 40. fig. 2. — Buff, ix, p. 278. PI. 1008, old male; 999, yearling . — 
Edwards, pi. 280, old male, pi. 156, young male. — Br. Zool. J\'o. 283. — Be- 
wick, II, p. 327 . — Canard de Millon, Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 860. 
