740 MICHIGAN BIRD LIFE. 
is restricted very closely to the coasts of the north Atlantic and has rarely 
or never been taken at any distance inland. To the average observer 
the two species look precisely alike, but there are numerous points of 
difference, the simplest being the number of tail-feathers, carbo having 
fourteen and auritus but twelve. 
Harlequin Duck. Histrionicus histrionicus (Linn.). (155) 
Synonyms: Painted Duck, Mountain Duck, Rock Duck. 
The male, readily known by the remarkable pattern of coloration, which 
has given it the name Harlequin, is slaty blue, black, and mahogany-red, 
with spots, rings and patches of pure white. 
We know of no specimen of this duck taken within the limits of the 
state. Covert in his manuscript list of 1894-95 states that a specimen 
was taken at Tawas Bay (Lake Huron), in January 1893 by John Symes; 
we have been unable, however, to verify this statement. Dr. Gibbs states 
that a specimen was shot on Lake Michigan near Chicago, and is now 
in the collection of the Chicago Academy of science. Kumlien & Hollister 
say “Rare winter straggler to Lake Michigan. Dr. Hoy obtained at 
least four specimens at Racine, and there is an old record, specimen not 
extant however, for Milwaukee” (Birds of Wisconsin, p. 25). The bird 
is fairly common and perfectly well known along the coast of Maine and 
New Brunswick, and also occurs in numbers in parts of the Hudson Bay 
region and in the high lakes of the northern Rocky Mountains and the 
Sierra Nevadas. The Harlequin loves cold weather and ice, and if it 
occurs at all within our limits it would be only during the winter season 
and in very small numbers. In the Fur Countries it is said by Sir John 
Richardson to frequent the eddies below waterfalls and similar localities 
in rapid streams. 
Labrador Duck. Camptorhynchus labradorius (Gmel.). (156) 
Distribution.—Formerly northern Atlantic Coast, from New Jersey 
(in winter) northward, breeding from Labrador northward. Now extinct. 
The claim of this duck to a place in the Michigan fauna rests mainly if 
not entirely on the statement of Mr. A. B. Covert of Ann Arbor, who, in 
company with Mr. Joshua Jones of the same place, took a specimen which 
Mr. Covert believes was a Labrador Duck, near Delhi Mills, Washtenaw 
county, Michigan, April 17, 1872. No other naturalist appears to have 
examined this specimen, which was mounted and in Mr. Jones’ collection 
for many years. Subsequently Mr. Jones died, his collection was scattered, 
and the specimen has never been located. The bird was a young bird 
and may easily have been something else than the Labrador Duck. 
Reference to this specimen is made in Forest and Stream of May 4, 1876. 
Stockwell in his list of Michigan birds (F. & 8. VIII, 23, 380) says ‘An 
accidental visitor to Michigan; one or two specimens have been seen in 
Georgian Bay.’ Other writers fail to mention the species, and while it 
is possible it does not seem probable that the bird was ever found in numbers 
on the Great Lakes. No doubt whatever exists that it is entirely extinct 
at the present time. The last specimen seen alive was a female shot by 
Mr. Cheney near the Island of Grand Menan, N. B. (near Eastport, Me.) 
in April 1871. 
