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BRITISH^ BIRDS, 
are reddifli brown, and form an oblique bar of that 
colour acrofs the wings : the belly, vent, and fca- 
pulars are white; the feathers of the latter long, 
narrow, and fliarp-pointed l the two middle or 
long feathers of the tail, and otie on each fide of 
them^ are black ; the reft white. The legs, and toes 
are pale blue ; webs and nails black : the inner toes 
and the fmall ones behind are margined by fmall la- 
teral webs. 
This fpecies is defcfibed as varying in the differ- 
ent lhades of their plumage. Iii fome the fpots on 
the fides of the upper part of the neck are much 
larger and darker, and the two tail feathers are 
double the length of thofe of others : their legs are 
alfo faid to be fometimes of deeper or lighter lhades 
of red. 
The Long-tailed Ducks, it is faid, do not in the 
winter, like many of the other tribes, entirely 
quit their native haunts in the northern extremi- 
ties of the world, but confiderable numbers re- 
main there, enduring its gloomy rigours, as well as 
enjoying the perpetual day, under the influence of 
the unfetting fummer’s fun, during the reft of the 
thus divided year. Numerous flocks, however, 
fpread themfelves fouthward in the winter, from 
Greenland and Hudfon’s Bay, as far as New York 
in America; and from Iceland and Spitzbergen, 
over Lapland, the Ruffian dominions, Sweden, Nor- 
way, and the Northern parts of the Britilh Hies in 
