HARLEaUIN DUCK. 



(Fuligula histrionica, Bonap. Synops. No. 345. Clangula kistrio- 

 nica, Leach. Rich, and Swains. North. Zool. ii. p. 459. Jnas 

 histrionica, Linn. Forster. Phil. Trans. Ixii. p. 419. No. 52. 

 Lath. Ind. sp. 45. Wilson, viii. p. 139. pi. 72. %. 4. Tebim. ii. 

 p. 878. Harlequin Duck, Penn. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 490. Dusky 

 and Spotted Duck, Edavards. pi. 99. [female.] Painted Duck, and 

 Mountain Duck, Hudson's Bay Residents. Le Canard a collier 

 de Terre JVeuve, Buff. Ois. ix. p. 250. Ib. PI. Enlum. 798. Phil. 

 Museum, No ) 



Sp. Charact. — Speculum blue-black ; space before the eye and 

 auriculars, white ; tail wedge-shaped consisting of 14 pointed 

 feathers; bill narrow, not hooked at the extremity. — Male, bluish- 

 plumbeous, varied with black and white ; line over the eye and 

 flanks rufous. Female greyish-brown, below greyish- white, barred 

 with dull brown ; auricular spot, and a small one near the front, 

 white. 



This singularly marked and beautiful species is almost a 

 constant resident of the hyperboreal regions of the northern 

 hemisphere, from which it migrates but short distances 

 towards more temperate latitudes, and is as in Europe a rare 

 and almost accidental visiter as far as the Middle States of 

 the Union. It is however more frequent in Eastern Europe 

 up to Greenland ; and common from lake Baikal to Kam- 



