LONG-TAILED DUCK.
NORTHERN ffARELD. CA.LLOO. CO A L- AN D-OA NDLE-LTGHT.
LONG-TAILED SIIIEI,DRAKE. SHARP-TAI LEI) DUCK.
Amis glaa'alis, PENNANT. MONTAGU.
Clangttla giaa'ah's, FLEMING. SFLRY.
Anas—A Duck. Glactaiis—Belonging to ice.
THIS is yet another of those hardy birds which revel in the cold
of the extreme; north. It is a well-defined and handsome species.
They are very plentiful in the Hyperborean regions—Iceland, Nova
Zembla, Spitzbergcn, and others, and on the European continent are
found in Russia, Denmark, Norway, Lapland, and Sweden, along the
shores of the mainland, as well as among the islands of the Baltic.
They have been known, too, in Germany, Italy, France, Switzerland,
and Holland. In America they are equally abundant in Greenland
and the North Georgian Islands, Labrador, Hudson's Bay, and about
Newfoundland, and come southwards, in winter, as far as Carolina;
likewise in the northern parts of Asia—Kamlschatka and others.
I n Yorkshire, Edward Dawson, Esq., of Osgodby Hall, shot one, a
female, in the month of November, 18-53, on Riccall Common. One
was shot on the coast in the winter of 18-51, as Mr. William Felkiu,
J u u . , of Carrington, near Nottingham, has informed me. It has also
occurred near Driffield, Doucastcr, and York. In Oxfordshire one
was killed near Standlake in the winter of 1810: the species has
also occurred on the River Isis, near Kennington. In Derbyshire
some visit the Trent in hard winters. In Durham it has occurred
near Bishop Auckland; also on the Cumberland coast, and near
Stockton-on-Tees, one the latter cud of December,. 18b'8. In December,
1849, after a long chase, one of these birds was obtained
by Arthur Dynmke Brad&haw, Esq., of Southampton, as that gentle