180 ANATin^. 



and Ontario, about 45° N. latitude. In winter it ranges 

 from the Aleutian Islands and British Columbia to Lower 

 California, Mexico, Florida, and the West Indies. It has 

 occurred as a straggler in the Commander Islands and 

 Hawaii, and has been met with in Greenland, Newfoundland, 

 Nova Scotia, and the Bermudas. It has not been obtained 

 in north-western Europe. 



Genus HISTRIONICUS Lesson, Man. d'Orn. ii. 1828, 



p. 415. 



Type : H. Jdstrionicus (Linn.). 



B?st7-ioTCifciis=Hke an actor (histrio), so called from the bird's parti-coloured 

 livery. 



Histrionicus histrionicus. Harlequin Duck. 



Anas Mstrionica Linnceus, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 127 : 

 Newfoundland. 



Cosmonetta histrionica (Linn.) ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 1.32 ; 

 Salvadori, Cat. Birds B. M. xxvii. 1895, p. 395; Saunders, 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 457. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor, but 

 several well authenticated instances of its occurrence are oa 

 record : — a male, Filey, Yorkshire, autumn 1862, and two 

 immature males (out of (hree seen). Fame Islands, North- 

 umberland, Dec. 1886. Specimens figured by J. Sowerby 

 (' British Miscellany,' 1806) were possibly obtained in 

 Scotland. 



General Distributio7i. — The Harlequin Duck inhabits the 

 greater part of the northern Hemisphere and breeds over 

 a large part of its. range except in northern Europe. It is 

 resident in Iceland, is said to nest in the Yaroslavl Govt, and 

 the Ural Mountains, and east of the Lena from Lake Baikal 

 through the Amur valley to Kamchatka. In North America 

 it nests from Alaska to Greenland to about 70° N. latitude 

 on the east coast and southwards in the mountains of central 

 California and Colorado to about 40° N., as well as in 



