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LONG-TAILED DUCK. 
AjYAS GLJICMLIS. 
[Plate LXX.— Fig. 1, Male.] 
Gmel. Si/st. I, /». 529, A"©. 30; A. hyemalh^ Id. No, 29; Mergus furcifer^ Id. p, 548, No. 
7. — Ind. Orn. p. 864, A'b. 82, et var, ; Mergus furcifer^ Id, p, 832, No. 8. Gen. Syn. Ill, 
p. 528, No. 73; Id. p. 529, young male,, called the female; Id. p. 531, var. A; Forked 
Merganser, Id. Sup. II, p, 339, No, 5. — Le Canard a longue queue d''Islande, Bniss. VI, 
p. 379 ; Le Canard a longue queue de Terre-Neuve, Id. p. 382 ; La Sarcelle de Ferroe, Id. 
p. 466, pi. A0,fg. 2.— Buff. IX,/».202; Id. 278. PI. Enl. 1008, old male ; 999, ymr- 
Img. — Edwards, pi. 280, old male ; pi. 156, young male. — Br. Zool. No. 283. Arct. ZooL 
No. 501. — Bewick, II, p. 327. — Cuv. Big. An. I, p. 533. — Canard de Miclon, Temm. 
Man, d'Orn, p, 860. — Montagu, Orn. Die. Sup . — Peale’s Museum, No. 2810. 
THIS Duck is very generally known along the shores of the 
Chesapeake bay by the name of South Southerly, from the singu- 
larity of its ciy, something imitative of the sound of these 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 Ducks, and seldom 
ramble far from the sea. They inhabit our bays and coasts dur- 
ing 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 migra- 
ting south to avoid the severest rigors of that climate. They are 
common to the whole northern hemisphere. In the Orkneys they 
are met with in considerable flocks, from October to April ) fre- 
