Amer. [Imitative: see first quot.] The long-tailed duck, Harelda glacialis.
1814. A. Wilson, Amer. Ornith., VIII. 93. Known along the shores of the Chesapeake Bay by the name of South Southerly, from the singularity of its cry, something imitative of the sound of those words.
1872. Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 291.
1878. A. M. Ross, Catal. Mammals Canada, 8/1.