BRITISH BIRDS. 34! 



life. 



THE HARLEQUIN DUCK. 



(Anns Histrionica, Gm. Linn. Canard a collier , ou 

 liistrion, Temm.) 



THE above figure was made from a specimen 

 shot on the Island of Disco, in Baffin's Bay, in 

 1826, and presented by Captain Palmer, of the 

 Cove Greenland ship, to the museum of the Literary 

 and Philosophical Society of Newcastle. It had 

 been so very indifferently preserved, and its fea- 

 thers so dishevelled and misplaced, that the 

 accurate figure and equally accurate description 

 in Edwards' s valuable work, were referred to as 

 guides to enable the author to perfect both for the 

 History of British Birds. 



The length is seventeen inches; the bill short 

 and black; irides brown; the head and neck are 

 black, glossed in different lights with violet or with 



