578 HISTEIONICUS TORQUATUS, HARLEQUIN DUCK. 



Gecl. Snrv. Ter. 1870, 466 (Wyoming).— Aiken, Pr. Bost, Soc. xv, 1872, 210 

 (Colorado).— CoUES, Kej', 1872, 290.— Snow, B. Kaua. 1873, 11 ; autl of most 

 late writers. 

 Anas Imccplialn, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, 200 ( $ ).— Gm., Syst. Nat. 1, 1788, 521. 

 Anas rustica, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, 201 ( 5 ).— Gm., Syst. Nat. i, 1788, 524. 



Hab. — North America. Mexico. Cuba (Cab., J. f. O. v, 230). Greenlaud. Accidental 

 in England (Hart., I. c, several instances). 

 Not procured by the earlier Expeditions. 

 Later Expeditions. — 61118, Fort Sanders, Wyoming. 



I have reason to believe that this Duck, not hitherto reported as 

 breeding- in the United States, nests in Northern Dakota, as it certainly 

 do^s in the same latitude in Montana, along Milk Eiver and its tribu- 

 taries. I found very young birds, in July, about Turtle Mountain, on 

 the boundary line, but they were all able to fly, and may have been 

 hatched a little further north. In the autumn, winter, and spring, the 

 species is very abundant on the waters of the Missouri, much as else- 

 where in suitable places throughout the United States. Some indi- 

 viduals reach Mexico and Cuba; further south than this I have no 

 records. 



The Buffle-head is not often seen in the United States, except from fall 

 to spring; as it usually retires to high latitudes to breed, as along the 

 X'ukon and elsewhere in boreal America, its nidification is consequently 

 not generally known. A set of fourteen eggs taken, the accompanying 

 label states, from a feathery nest in a dead poplar, some distance from 

 the ground, furnishes the following description : Shape, perfectly ellip- 

 soidal ; size, slightly over 2 inches in length by 1^ in breadth ; color, a 

 peculiar tint, just between rich creamy-white and grayish-olive, unva- 

 ried by markings. Other eggs are described as being about If long by 

 1^ broad, and buff-colored. 



HISTEIONICUS TOEQUATUS, (Linu.) Bp. 

 Harlequin Duck. 



Anas Mstrionica. Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, 204.— Fohst., Phil. Trans. Ixii, 1772, 38.3, 

 419.— Gm., Syst. Nat. i, 1788, .5:M.— Lath., lud. Oru. ii, 1790, 849.— Brunn., Orn. 

 Bor. 1764, 84.— Pall., Zoog. R. A. ii, 1811, 273.— WiLS., Am. Oru. viii, 1814. 139, 

 pi. 72, f. 4.— Temm., Man. 1815, 574 ; ii, 1835, 878 ; iv, 1840, 549.— Naum., V. D. 

 xil, 1844, 199, pi. 318.— ScHL., Rev. Crit. 119.— SwiNii., Ibis, 1863, 324. 



J)ias (Fiilifiiila) histrioiiica, Bp., Obs. Wils. 1825, No. 277. 



FitJi(jiiIa {Clmujula) histrionim, Bp., Syn. 1828, 394.— Nutt., Man. ii, 1834, 448. 



FuUgula histrionica, AuD., Orn. Biog. lii, 1835, 612 ; v, 1839, 617 ; Syn. 1839, 294 ; B. Am. 

 vi, 1843, 374, pi. 409.— Sklys-L., Fu. Belg. 1842, 147.— DeKay, N. Y. Zool. ii, 

 1844, 331.— GiR., B. L. I. 1844, 336.— Degl., Oru. Eur. ii, 1849, 451.— Scul., M. 

 Pays-Bas, viii, 1865, 23. 



Cosmoncssaliistriouica, Kaup, Sk. Eut. Eur. Th. 1829, 40. 



Clmujula luslrionim, Boie, Isis, 1022, 564. — Stepil, Gen. Zool. xii, 1824, 180, pi. .57. — 

 Flem., Br. Auim. 120.— Jen., Man. Br. Vert. 246.— Sw. «fc Rich., F. B. A. ii, 

 1831, 459.— Eyt., Mou. Auat. 1838, 163.— Macgil., Man. ii, 184.— Gray. Gen. of 

 B. iii, 1869, 622.— Bp., List, 1838, 58.— Reinii., Ibis, iii, 1861, 14 (Greenland). 



Eareldahisfrionka, Keys. & Blas., Wirb. Eur. 1840, 87.— Bp., List Eur. Birds, 1842.— 

 FiNSCii, Abh. Nat. iii, 1872, 67 (Alaska). 



PhjJaconetia hisfrioiriva, Brandt, Mem. Acad. St. Petersburg, vi, 1849, 9. 



Bueepliala (Histrioniens) Itisitiouica, Gray, Hand-list, iii, 1871, 87, No. 10700. 



Ilistrionicus iorqiuttiis, Bp., Comptes Rendus, xliii, 18.56. — Bd., B. N. A. 18.58,798. — CoOP. 

 & Suck., N. H. Wash. Ter. 1860, 260.— Wheat., Ohio Agric. Rep. 1860, No. 256.— 

 Ross, Canad. Nat. 1862.— Verr., Pr. Ess. Inst, iii, 1862, 158.— Dall &■ Bann., 

 Tr. Chic. Acad. 1869, 298 (Yukon, breeding).— Boardm., Pr. Bost. Soc. ix, 1862, 

 130 (breeding, rarely, in Bay of Fuudy). — Coues, Pr. Ess. Inst, v, ]808, 300 

 (New England).— Lawr., Ann. Lye. N. Y. viii, 1866, 297.— Turnb., B. E. Pa. 

 1868, 46 (very rare).— Coues, Key, 1872, 291.— Ridgw., Ann. Lye. N. Y. x, 1874, 

 390 (Lake Michigan). — Coues, Am. Nat. 1874 (breeding in Rocky Mountains 

 of the United States). 



Anas minuta, Linn., Syst. Nat. i, 1766, 204 ( $ ). 



