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HARLEQUIN DUCK. 



COSMONETTA HISTRIONICA [Linn.). 



Anas liistriouica^ Linn. S. N. i. p. 20-i (1766); Nauin. xii. 



p. 199. 

 Claiigula liistrionicaj Macg. v. p. 169. 

 Fuligula histrionica, Hetvitsun, ii. p. 433. 

 Cosmonetta histrionica, Yarr. ed. 4, iv. p. 152 ; Dresser, vi. 



p. 609. 



Canard histrion, French ; Kragen-Ente, German. 



With regard to the various recorded instances of the 

 occurrence of this very beautiful species in Great 

 Britain, there is no doubt that several in reality 

 were referable to the Long-tailed Duck ; and Mr. H. 

 Saunders, in his 'Manual of British Birds,' published 

 in 1889, gives us to understand that he was only 

 acquainted with three preserved specimens in this 

 country that could be regarded without doubt as 

 genuinely British specimens. Of these, the first was 

 obtained by Mr. Roberts, of Scarborough, from some 

 fishermen who found it dead on the shore at Filey in 

 the autumn of 1862 ; this is a male, and is now in the 

 collection of Mr. J. Whitaker, of Rainworth. The 

 other two, both young males, were killed near the 

 Fame Islands on December 2nd, 1886, and are respec- 

 tively in the collections of Mr. R. W. Chase and the 



