BRITISH BIRDS. 363 
LONG-TAILED DUCK, 
OR SWALLOW-TAILED SHELDRAKE. 
(Anas Glacialis, Lin , — Canard de Miflony BuE) 
This fpecies is confiderably lefs than the laft, and 
comes more hearly to the fize of the Wigeon. The 
bill is fliort, black, and croffed by an orange red 
bar between the tip and the noftrils, with both man- 
dibles deeply pectinated on the edges. The front 
of the head, cheeks, and fides of the neck, are 
pale reddilh brown, with an oval-fliaped black and 
chefnut patch, placed on the fides behind the auri- 
culars ; the reft of the head and neck is white : the 
breaft, flioulders, back, and leffer wing-coverts, are 
of a deep chocolate colour, more or lefs inclining 
to black or brown in different birds : the greater 
coverts and primary quills dufky \ the fecondaries 
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