HARLEQUIN DUCK. 
HARLEQUIN GARROT. 
Anas histrionica, PENNANT, Monrtacu. 
Clunyula histrronica, FLemiInG, SELBY, 
Anas—A Duck Histrionica —Histrionic. 
THe Harlequin Duck, which derives its name from its 
variegated plumage, though on the whole it is of a dark 
appearance, is another northern species, and in Europe appertains 
the most to Iceland, Russia, Sweden, and those parts, and has 
occurred in France and Germany. In Asia it is known in 
Kamtschatka, and in Siberia, about Lake Baikal, and thence 
proceeds, according to the season, to the lower latitudes of 
Lake Aral and the Caspian Sea. In America it is common 
about the Bay of Fundy, Labrador, Newfoundland, Hudson’s 
Bay, Greenland, and in winter advances southwards to the 
United States. It is mentioned also by Dr. Richardson as 
occurring in the vicinity of the Rocky Mountains. 
It is altogether, as is related, a bird of the sea and its inlets. 
and the mouths of rivers, excepting during the breeding-season, 
and even then it appears not to go more than a mile or so 
from such to small lakes or other waters. Its occurrence 
farther inland is merely the result of some fortuitous 
circumstance. 
These birds breed in Iceland. 
A Harlequin Duck was once purchased in the market at 
Yarmouth, in Norfolk: an adult male is said to have been 
killed near that place. A female of this species was shot on 
the River Don, near Doncaster. In Devonshire one in the 
winter of 18380. ‘Two the same season were purchased in the 
