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LAMELLIROSTRAL SWIMMERS — ANSERES. 



tliiui half the wing), mucli t,'ra(liinto(l, consisting of fouitijun feathers. Phmiage of the sexes vtrv 

 diflerent, the niah; very handsomely marked, the female very sombre. 



H. minutus. 



But a single sperics of this well-marked genus is known. This, the well-known Harlef|uiii 

 Duck, is common to both continents of the nortliern lieniisphere, where it inhabits chieily hi},'h 

 latitudes. 



HistiionicuB minutus. 



THE HABLEQVIN SUCK. 



Anas histrionicn, I,ixn. S. N. «1. 10, I. 1758, 127 ; c.l. 12, I. 176«!, 204. — WiLs. Am. Orn. VIII. 



1814, 130, pi. 72, fig. 4. 

 Fuliijida {C/auf/iila) hi^riimiai, Monai'. .Syiiop. 1828, .194. — Xi'TT. M.m. II. 1834, 448. 

 Fitliiinla histrionim, AuD. Orii. Hiog. III. 1835, 612 ; V. 1839, 617 ; Synop. 1839, 617 ; B. Am. YI. 



184.3, 374, pi. 409. 

 Clangulii torquata, BuF-UM, Vogolf. 185.'), 38!). 

 HistriomcHs torqmtiis, Boxap. Coiniit. Iteiul. XLIII. 1856. — Baiud, B. N. Am. 1858, 798; Cat. 



N. Am. B. 1859, iio. 596. — Cori-.s, Key, 1872, 291 ; Check List, 1873, no. 510 ; B. N. W. 1874, 



578. 

 Anas mimtta, LiNS. S. N. ed. 10, I. 175S, 127 ; cd. 12, I. 1760, 204 ( ? ). 

 Ilislrinnkus wiiiiiliis. niiKssKis, liinls of Knnipi' (in text). — CouKs, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, V. Apr, 



1880, 101; (hock I.i.st, 2d cd. 1882, no. 730. — l!ii).;w. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 622. 



Hab. Northern North America ; south in winter to the Middle States and Califoniia ; breed- 

 ing south to Newfoundland, the Northern Rocky Mountains, and in the Sierra Nevada to hit. .38° 

 or farther. 



Sp. Char. Adult male: Entire lond region, continued back, from its upper part, in a stripe 

 on each side of the crown, an oval spot over the ears, a strijic of a little more than an inch in 

 length down each side of the na]ie, a narrow collar completely encircling the lower neck, a broad 

 bar across each side of the breast, the miildle ]u)rtion (longitudinally) of the outer scapukis, tin' 

 greater part of the tertials, a spot near the tip of the greater wing-coverts, and a small spot on each 

 si<Ie of the cri.ssum, at the base of the tail, wiiile. A broail longltuclinal stripe on each side of tlie 

 crown and occiput, with entire sides and flanks, bright rufous. Hcail and nei^k, except asdescrilied, 

 dark plumbeous, with a faint violaceoi\s cast, becoming gradually black along the border o!' Ilie 

 white markings ; pileum with a mesial strijie of blue-black extending from the base of the cul- 

 racn to the occiput. Back, jugulum, and sides of the breast bluish plumbeous, the white cidlar 



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