Male. 



GARROT. NATATORES. CLANGULA. 371 



HARLEQUIN GARROT. 



CLANGULA HISTRIONICA, Leach. 

 PLATE LX. 



Clangula histrionica, Fkm. Br. Anim. 1. 120. sp. 179 Shaw's ZooL 12 



180. pi. 57 Faun. Amer. Boreal. 2. 459. No. 218. 

 Canard a Collier, ou Histrion, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 878. 

 Canard Arlequin, Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 533. 

 Anas histrionica, Linn. Syst. 1. 204. 35. Gmel. Syst. 1. 534. Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 849. sp. 45. 

 Anas torquata, Briss. Orn. 6. 362. 14. 



Le Canard a Collier de Terre Neuve, Buff. Ois. 9. 250. Id. PL Enl. 798. 

 Die Kragen-Ente, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 1037. Meyer, Tasschenb. 



530. 



Dusky and Spotted Duck, Edward, pi. 99. 

 Harlequin Duck, Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 490. Lath. Syn. 6. 485. 38 



Wils. Amer. Ornith. 8. 153. pi. 72. fig. 4 Mmt. Ornith. Diet 1 



Sowerby, Br. Misc. pi. 6. 



Anas minuta, Linn. Syst. 1. 204. 36 Gmel Syst. I. 534. 



Querquedula freti Hudsonis, Briss. Orn. 6. 469. 41. 



La Sarcelle brune et blanche, Buff. Ois. 9. 287 Id. PL Enl. 799. 



Little Brown and White Duck, Edward, t. 157. 



THE Harlequin Garrot (so named from the singular Very rare 

 marking of the male bird's plumage) is one of our rarest vlsltant - 

 winter visitants, the instances of its capture being confined 

 to three or four, all of which occurred in the northern parts 

 of Scotland. It inhabits the northern regions of both the 

 old and new continents, and is a well-known species in the 

 north-eastern parts of Europe. In Siberia, Kamtschatka, 

 and other countries of Asia it is equally abundant. In Ame- 

 rica, during its summer migration, it is met with in the inte- 

 rior of the country round Hudson's Bay, and also in the vi- 

 cinity of the Rocky Mountains, where Dr RICHARDSON de- 

 scribes it as haunting the eddies under cascades, and amongst 

 rapid streams. It is a bird of shy disposition and very vigi- 

 lant ; and (contrary to the habit of the other Garrots) takes 

 wing at once when disturbed, flying swiftly, and at a great 



