56o • HARLEQUIN AND POCHARD DUCK. 



490. Harleq_uin. DuOcy and Spotted Duck, Edw. 99 ; and the Female, Edw. i^j.—CateJhy, i. gS. 



Arias Hiftrionica, Lin, Syft. 204. — Ph. ^ranf. Ixii. d^\<^.^~Latham, iii. 

 Anas Brimond, Olaffen Iceland, ii. tab. xxxiv. — PL Enl. 798.— Lev. Mus.— • 

 Bl. Mus. 



\\. .With a fiTiall black bill : between the bafe and the eyes a greac 

 white patch : crown black, bounded by a light rufty line : 

 cheeks, chin, and neck, black ; beneath each a white fpot ; below 

 tnat a Ihort line of white, pointing down the neck : Jaottom of the 

 neck, on each fide, bounded by a tranfverfe line of white ; beneath 

 which is another of black: breaft, back, fcapulars, and part of the 

 belly, of a pleafant flate-color: breaft on each fide marked with 

 femilunar ftripes of white, beginning at the llioulders, and bounded 

 on each fide with a ftripe of black : wings and tail deep a(h : rump, 

 above and below, of a full black : legs black. The Female is al- 

 moft wholly dufky, and is marked at the bafe of the bill with a white 

 fpot, and another behind each ear. Size of a Wigeon. 

 -Pl-age. Inhabits from Carolina to Greenland : in the laft frequents, during 



fummer, the rapid rivers, and the moft Ihady paTrts. Neftles on the 

 banks, among the low fhrubs. Swims anrd dives admirably. In winter 

 feeks the open fea. Flies high and fwiftly, and is very clamorous. 

 Feeds on Ihell-filh, fpawn, and the larvs of gnats. Is found in 

 Iceland, and as low as Sondmor *. Is common from the lake Baikal 

 to Kamtfchatka : breeds there, as well as every where elfe, aboilt 

 the moft rocky and rapid torrents. 



491. .Pochard. Br.Zool.li. N" 284. — Anas Ferina, Faun. Siec.'N° izy. — Laiham, iii, 



■Le Millouin, PI. Enl. 303.— Lev. Mus.— Bl. Mus. 



With a lead-colored bill : head and neck bright bay : breaft and 



upper part of the back black : reft of the back, fcapulars, and 



coverts of wings, pale grey, ftreaked tranverfely with lines of black : 



• S/rm. 243. 



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