HARLEQUIN DUCK. 191 



Montana harlequins may be seen spending their time, in 

 small numbers, on lakes, often in the high mountains, 

 where the melting waters from the glaciers form curi- 

 our little mountain tarns at the edge of the timber line. 

 Its nest has not been found in this country, and only 

 twice in Europe ; once by Mr. Shepard, who states that 

 he found it breeding in Iceland "in holes in the trees," 

 while the Messrs. Pierson state that they found them 

 also in Iceland in holes in the banks. It is altogether 

 probable that in the northern Rocky and Sierra Nevada 

 mountains the harlequins breed in trees, while in Alaska 

 they very likely breed in holes. In the summer of 1899 

 harlequins were seen abundantly on the salt water in 

 Alaska, but all those taken were males. They were 

 very common in Prince William Sound and at many 

 points in the Bering Sea. An interesting account is 

 given in the Zoologist for 1850 on the breeding in 

 confinement of a pair of this species in Melbourne Gar- 

 dens, Derbyshire. Eight eggs were laid, which were 

 hatched about the middle of June, and several of the 

 young ducks reached maturity. Some of the names 

 given for this duck by Mr. Gurdon Trumbull are 

 painted duck, mountain duck, rock duck, lord for the 

 male and lady for the female, and squealer. 



