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LONG-TAILED DUCK. 
LONG-TAILED DUCK ANAS GLACIALIS Plate LXX. Fig. 1. 
Male. 
Le Canard a longue queue de Terre Neuve, Briss. vi. p. 382, 18 Buff. ix. p. 202. 
— PL Enl. 1008. — Edw. pi. 280. — Arct. Zool. No. 601. — Lath. Syn. iii. p. 
628. — Pealds Wuseum, No. 2810. 
HARELDA GLACIALIS.— Leach.* 
Anas glacialis, and Anas liyemalis, Linn. Syst. i. p. 202, and 203. — Lath. Ind. 
ii. p. 864 Fuligula glacialis, Bonap. Synop. p. 396. — 'Long-tailed duck, Mont. 
Ornith. Diet. i. and Supp. — Beta. Br. Birds, ii. 363. — Long-tailed Hareld, 
Selby's Illust. Br. Ornith. pi. 61. m. and f. — Harelda glacialis. North. Zool. ii. 
p. 460. 
This duck is very generally known along tlie 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 supposed 
to betoken a southerly wind ; on the coast of New Jersey, they 
are usually called old wives. They are chiefly salt water 
* This bird forms the type of Dr Leach’s genus Harelda. It is remarkable 
for the decided change between the plumage of the breeding season and that of 
the winter, bearing analogy, in many particulars, to the Tringse and their allies 
— for the prolongation of the scapulary feathers, and for the narrow lengthened 
tail. It is a native of both continents, but in Britain is only met with during 
winter, in the dress of that season, or in the plumage of the first y’^ear. It 
keeps to the open sea, and seldom ventures inland to rivers or lakes. The fol- 
lowing is a description of a specimen killed on the first May, from the Northern 
Zoology, and which agrees nearly with skins in my possession. “ The whole 
upper plumage, the central pairs of tail feathers, and the under plumage to the 
fore part of the belly, brownish black ; the lesser quills, paler. A triangular 
patch of feathers, between the shoulders and the scapulars, broadly bordered with 
orange brown.” (In the winter plumage, the long scapulars are pure white, and 
^orm a beautiful contrast, hanging over the dark quills.) “ Sides of head from 
the bill to the ears, ash grey ; eye stripe, and posterior under plumage, pure 
white ; flanks, sides of the rump, and lateral tail feathers, white, stained with 
brown ; axillaries and inner wing-coverts, clove brown j bill, black, with an 
orange belt (bright vermilion) before the nostrils.” — En. 
