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Female. —With the head and body above, dark-brown; the chin more plumbeous; 
the lower part of neck, breast, and under parts generally, except the central region 
(which is white), duller and lighter brown; a whitish patch in front of the eye, and 
a rounded spot just behind the ear. 
Length, seventeen and fifty one-hundredths inches; wing, seven and seventy 
one-hundredths; tarsus, one and forty-eight one-hundredths; commissure, one and 
fifty-four one-hundredths inches. 
Hab. — Northern seacoast of northern hemisphere. 
The Harlequin Duck is very rare in Southern New Eng- 
land, and is seldom met with here south of the most north- 
ern portions on its coast. There it is pretty abundantly 
seen as a winter visitor. It greatly resembles the following 
in its general characteristics. Its nest and eggs are thus 
described : . 
“The nest is composed of dry plants of various kinds, arranged 
in a circular manner to the height of three or four inches, and lined 
with finer grasses. ‘The eggs are five or six, rarely more, measure 
two inches and one-sixteenth by one inch and four and a half 
eighths, and are of a plain greenish-yellow color. After the eggs 
are laid, the female plucks the down from the lower parts of her 
body, and places it beneath and around them.” 
HARELDA, LxEAcu. 
“ Harelda, LEACH (1816),” Gray. (Type Anas glacialis, L.) 
Bill shorter than the head and tarsus, tapering laterally to the end; the nail 
very broad, occupying the entire tip; lateral profile of lower edge of upper mandi- 
ble straight to near the end, then rising suddenly to the prominent decurved nail; 
nostrils large, in the posterior half of the bill, their centre about opposite the middle 
of the commissure; tertials long, lanceolate, and straight; tail pointed, of fourteen 
feathers, the central feathers very long, equal to the wings; bill with almost no pos- 
terior lateral upper angle; the feathers of the sides advancing obliquely forwards; 
feathers of chin reaching beyond the middle of the commissure, or almost to the 
anterior extremity of nostrils; tail of fourteen feathers. 
HARELDA GLACIALIS. — Leach. 
The South Southerly; Old Wife; Long-tail. 
Anas glacialis, Wilson. Am. Orn., VIII. (1814) 93, 96. 
Fuligula (Harelda) glacialis, Nuttall. Man., II. (1834) 453. 
Fuligula glacialis, Audubon. Orn. Biog., IV. (1838) 103. Jb., Birds Am., VI. 
(1843) 379 
