I A M ELLI ROSTRAL SWIM MERS 



155. Harlequin Duck. Histrionicus 

 histrionicus . 



Range. Northern Hemisphere in America, 

 breeding from Newfoundland and the Rocky 

 Mountains in Colorado, northward. South in win- 

 tor to California and New England. 



A beautiful and most gorgeous bird, not in col- 

 ors, hut in tin' oddity of the markings, the colors 

 only including black, white, gray and chest nut. 

 Either sex can he recognized by the small short 



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< 'iricnish liiit't' 



hill. They hreed mostly in single pairs along 

 swiftly running streams, placing their nest, which 

 is woven of weeds and grasses, in the ground 

 near the water. It is also claimed that they soiim 

 times nest in hollow trees. They lay from live 

 to eight eggs, yellowish or greenish buff in color. 



Size 2.30x1.60. Data. Peel River. Alaska. June 

 ]:',, 1V V . Seven eggs in a hollow in river hank, 

 lined with down. Collector, C. I*:. Whittaker. 



i]uin Duck 



Labrador 



156. Labrador Duck. Camptorhynchus labra 

 dorius. 



This bird, whose range was from Labrador to New Jersej in the winter, 

 has probablj been extincl since 1875, when the last authentic capture was 



made. It is a strange fact that a bird of this character should have I n 



completelj exterminated, even though thej were often sold in the markets. 



Onlj tortj ■ specimens are known to be preserved at present and nothing 



i known in regard to their nesting habil or eggs. 



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