474 THE HARLEQUIN GARROT AND THE HARELD. 



The Harlequin Garrot (Brim-Dufva, Sw. ; C. histrionica, 

 Steph.) is included in the Scandinavian fauna, though with 

 very little reason as it seems to me ; for I can find no in- 

 stance recorded of its having heen seen, much less killed, 

 within the peninsula. In Denmark it has been observed 

 occasionally off the west coast of Holstein. 



The Long-tailed Hareld, or Arctic Duck (Al-Fogel, Sw. ; 

 Harelda glacialis, Steph.), whose proper home is the Arctic 

 regions Lapland, Icelandj Greenland, and Spitzbergen, for 

 instance was exceedingly common during the autumn in 

 the neighbouring Skargard, where, indeed, many usually 

 winter. Stragglers wounded birds probably were, once in 

 a time, to be seen in our Skargard, and elsewhere, in the 

 more southern parts of Sweden during the summer; but 

 it only nests, it is believed, in the northern portion of Scan- 

 dinavia ; and even that as high up as the vicinity of the North 

 Cape itself. It is very common in Denmark during the 

 winter; and some few, Kjserbolling says, have been known 

 to breed there. Migrates partially. 



The hareld would appear to be quite indifferent to cold, 

 and that it is ice alone that causes it to migrate to 

 more genial climes. " When the sea freezes during severe 

 winters," says M. von Wright, " a large portion of these birds 

 leave us, but some remain in the open water caused by 

 strong currents near to Oroust. It seems even then un- 

 willing to leave the coast ; for one finds it on such times in no 

 small numbers about the outermost of the islands where, 

 owing to the constant rise and fall of the waves, the ice is 

 ground almost to powder labouring through the thick mass 

 to the bottom in search of food." Nilsson tells us, be- 

 sides, that even though the sea be for the most part frozen 



