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LONG-TAILED DUCK. 
In a female, the intestine is 57 inches long ; its width in the duodenal 
part 3 twelfths ; the cosca 4 inches long, 3 twelfths in breadth at the widest 
part, at the base 1 twelfth, and toward the end 2 twelfths ; their distance 
from the extremity 3 inches. 
LONG-TAILED DUCK. 
Fuligula glacialis, Linn. 
PLATE COCOS. — Males, Female, and ITneledged Young. 
In the course of one of my rambles along the borders of a large fresh- 
water lake, near Bras-d’or, in Labrador, on the 28th of July, 1833, I was 
delighted by the sight of several young broods of this species of Duck, all 
carefully attended to by their anxious and watchful mothers. Not a male 
bird was on the lake, which was fully two miles distant from the sea, and I 
concluded that in this species, as in many others, the males abandon the 
females after incubation has commenced. I watched their motions a good 
while, searching at the same time for the nests, one of which I was not long 
in discovering. Although it was quite destitute of anything bearing the 
appearance of life, it still contained the down which the mother had plucked 
from herself for the purpose of keeping her eggs warm. It was placed under 
an alder bush, among rank weeds, not more than eight or nine feet from the 
edge of the water, and was formed of rather coarse grass, with an upper 
layer of finer weeds, which were neatly arranged, while the down filled the 
bottom of the cavity, now apparently flattened by the long sitting of the 
bird. The number of young broods in sight induced me to search for more 
nests, and in about an hour I discovered six more, in one of which I was 
delighted to find two rotten eggs. They measured 2 inches and I long, by 
1^ broad, were of a uniform pale yellowish-green, and quite smooth. 
My young companions had, unfortunately for me, walked that morning to 
Blanc Sablon, about thirty miles distant, down the Straits of Belle Isle ; and 
having no dog to assist me in procuring some of the Young Ducks, I was 
obliged to enact the part of one myself, although the thermometer that day 
was 45° 50', and the atmosphere felt chilly. I gave chase to the younglings, 
which made for different parts of the shore, as I followed them up to my 
