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THE HARLEQUIN DUCK. : 
COSMONETTA HISTRIONICA (Linneeus). 
As shown by Prof. Newton in ‘The Ibis,’ 1859, pp. 162-166, 
and also by Mr. J. H. Gurney in his ‘Rambles of a Naturalist,’ 
Pp. 263-269 (1876), the majority of the birds which have from 
time to time been recorded as Harlequin Ducks obtained in Great 
Britain have been proved—where proof was possible—to be Long- 
tailed Ducks, American Wood-Ducks, or some other species. It 
appears probable, however, that the specimens figured by James 
Sowerby in his ‘British Miscellany’ (1806), were procured in 
Scotland ; the collection of Mr. J. Whitaker of Rainworth contains 
a male bird obtained by Mr. Roberts of Scarborough from some 
fishermen who had found it dead on the shore at Filey in the 
autumn of 1862; while on December 2nd 1886, three individuals 
were observed near the Farne Islands, off the coast of Northumber- 
land, and two young males which were secured are, respectively, in 
the collections of Mr. R. W. Chase and the Rev. Julian Tuck. 
A male Harlequin Duck in the Upsala collection is supposed to 
