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LONG.TAILED DUCK. 
On dissection, the intestines were found to measure five feet 
six inches. The windpipe was very curiously formed; besides the 
labyrinth, which is nearly as large as the end of one’s thumb, it has 
an expansion immediately above that, of double its usual diame- 
ter, which continues for an inch and a half ; this is flattened on 
the side next the breast, with an oblong window-like vacancy in 
it, crossed with five narrow bars, and covered with a thin transpa- 
rent skin, like the panes of a window; another thin skin of the 
same kind is spread over the external side of the labyrinth, which 
is partly of a circular form. This singular conformation is, as 
usual, peculiar to the male, the female having the windpipe of 
nearly a uniform thickness throughout. She differs also so much 
in tlie colors and markings of her plumage as to render a figure 
of her in the same plate necessary ; for a description of which see 
the following article. 
We are told in the History of Cook’s last voyage that this 
species is common at Kamtschatka ; and that it “ is called by the 
natives Jl'an~gitche^ a word intended to express its cry, which is 
not less singular than agreeable, consisting of three distinct notes, 
rising at equal intervals above each other.”* Latham says that it is 
called at Hudson’s bay Ha-ha-way > 
^ Voyage of the Resolution and Discovery, vol. HI, p. 346, 4to. 
