484 D U C K. 



g g Anas hillrionica, Lin. Sjjl. !. p. 204. 35. — Brun. Orn. N* 84. 85. — Mullerj,. 



HARLEQUIN D. N° 127.— Faun. Groenl. N° tp.—Georgi Rei/e, p. 166.— Phil. Tran/l- 



The Male- Ix »- W.—Frifcb. t. 157. 



Brirriond, O/ajf: /«/. ii. t. 34. 

 Le Canard a. Collier de-Terre Neuve, Brif. Orn.-vv. p. 362.. 14.— Buf. Oi/l- 



ix. p. 250.- — PI. Enl. 798. 

 Stone Duck, Hift. Kamtfch. p. 160. 

 Dufky and Spotted Duck, Ediv. pi. 99. 

 Harlequin Duck, Ar8. Zool. N° 490. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



B'escrjption. CIZE of a Wigeon. Length one foot-five inches: breadth twenty— 

 fix inches : weight eighteen ounces and three-quarters, troy: 

 Bill near an inch and a half long, and black: irides hazel : between' 

 the bill and eye white, in fome yellowifh, ory^ra^colour*, ex- 

 tending a little over the eyes, and beyond : crown of the head 

 black, bounded by a reddifh ftreak : on each fide of the neck 

 a perpendicular line of white, and above it a white fpot ; except 

 this, the whole of the neck is black : round the breaft is a white 

 collar, broaden: behind, where it is marked with black dots, and 

 is bounded by a black one : between this and the wings is a 

 tranfverfe mark of white : the breaft, below the collar, blueifii 

 afh-colour : the back dufky brown, inclined to purple : rump 

 deep blue black: belly and thighs black: fides dull orange: on- 

 each fide of the tail a fpot of white : the prime quills dufky 

 afh-colour, fome of them tipped with white: tail brown: legs 

 blueifh black. In one of thefe were: found two ftreaks of black. 



* Midler. 



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