68 NOTES ON THE 
light reddish-brown; under wing coverts and axillars, brownish- 
chocolate; no white on the wing; iris, white. 
Length, 21; wing, 9; tail, 8; tarsus, 1.50; commissure, 1.60. 
Habitat, Northern Hemisphere. 
HISTRIONICUS HISTRIONICUS (1.). (155.) 
HARLEQUIN DUCK. 
This peculiarly marked duck is found on Lake Superior in 
the winter, and has been obtained once in Grant county, whence 
it was brought here by Mr. Norris on his way to New York 
where he purposed to have it mounted for his private collec- 
tion. On two other occasions a specimen found its way into 
the hands of a taxidermist in St. Paul, and those of another 
residing in Minneapolis temporarily. These could be only 
stragglers in migration. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTERS. 
Head and neck all around, dark blue; jugulum, sides of 
breast, and upper parts, lighter blue, becoming bluish-black 
again on the tail coverts; the blue of the breast passes insensi- 
bly into dark bluish-brown behind; a broad stripe along the 
top of the head from the bill to the nape, and the tail feathers, 
black; a white patch along the entire side of the base of the 
bill anterior to the eye, and passing upwards and backwards so 
as to border the black of the crown, but replaced from above 
the eye to the nape by chestnut; a round spot on the side of 
the occiput; an elongated one on the side of the neck; a collar 
around the lower part of the neck, interrupted before and 
behind, and margined behind by dark blue; a transversely 
elongated patch on each side of the breast, similarly margined; 
a round spot on the middle wing coverts, a transverse patch on 
the end of the greater coverts, the scapulars in part, a broad 
streak on the outer web of the tertials, and a spot on each side, 
the rest of the tail, white; sides of body behind, chestnut- 
brown; secondaries with a metallic speculum of purplish or 
violet-blue; inside of wing and axillars, dark brown; iris, red- 
dish-brown. 
Length, 17.£0; wing, 7.70; tarsus, 1.50; commissure, 1.55. 
Habitat, northern North America. 
SOMATERIA SPECTABILIS (L.). (162.) 
KING EIDER. 
A pair of these ducks was obtained in Grant county by Mr. 
Kmery Armstrong, of Herman, in October, 1885. After con- 
siderable correspondence, I learned that one of them was sent 
to Philadelphia, and the other to some friend in Michigan, 
