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found also, says the same spirited writer, as far south as Lake 

 Baikal, and from thence to Kamschatka. It is also met with, 

 according to Latham, in Iceland. 



The male Harlequin Duck has the bill lead colour, tipped 

 with red ; irides, dark hazel ; crown, black ; between the base 

 of the bill and the eye is a triangular patch of white, with the 

 small end towards the bill. From the upper corner of the white 

 patch, a streak of brown, of variable intensity, proceeds over the 

 eye to the occiput. Back of the neck, black, with an elongated 

 white streak on each side ; throat, and upper part of the neck, 

 shining violet black ; auricular patch, white ; collar, and a 

 streak extending nearly from the point of one wing round the 

 front of the breast to that of the other, wing coverts, and largest 

 tertials, white ; breast and belly, brownish ; vent, brown ; tail, 

 dark umber brown ; wing spot, purple; quills, dark brown. 



Female, brown, with the margins of the feathers paler ; spot 

 between the base of the bill and the eye, and auricular spot, 

 white ; belly and vent, white, blotched with brown. Length of 

 the male, sixteen and a half inches ; breadth, twenty-seven 

 inches : the female rather smaller. 



Edwards relates, that the Newfoundland fishermen call it the 

 Lord ; and supposes the reason to be, from the likeness to a 

 chain it has round its neck ; " seeing the wearing gold chains is 

 an ancient mark of dignity in Europe." His etching of it, under 

 the name of the Dusky and Spotted Duck, is a very fair one. 



