HARLEQUIN DUCK. 



HARLEQUIN GARROT. 



Anns histrionica, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Cluityula kistnonica, FLEMING. SELBY. 



Anas A Duck Histrionira 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 

 Yarjnouth, 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 1830. Two the same season were purchased in the 



