282 duck. 



Dusky and Spotted Duck, Edw. pi. 99. 



Harlequin Duck, Gen. Syn. vi. 485. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 490. Br. Zool. 1812. ii. p. 

 269. Gent. Mag. xliv. pi. iv. p. 464. Orn. Did. 



SIZE of a Wigeon ; length seventeen inches, breadth twenty- 

 six ; weight eighteen ounces. Bilinear one inch and a half long, 

 and black ; irides hazel ; between the bill and eye white, in some 

 yellowish, or saffron-colour, extending a little over the eyes, and 

 beyond them ; crown of the head black, bounded by a reddish 

 streak ; on each side of the neck a perpendicular line of white ; and 

 above it a white spot; excepting this, the whole of the neck is black ; 

 round the breast a white collar, broadest behind, where it is marked 

 with black dots, and is bounded by a black one ; between this and 

 the wings a transverse mark of white ; the breast, below the collar, 

 bluish ash ; back dusky brown, inclined to purple; rump deep blue 

 black; belly and thighs black ; sides dull orange; tail pointed at 

 the end ; on each side of it a spot of white ; prime quills dusky ash, 

 some of them tipped with white ; tail brown ; legs bluish black. 



In one specimen were two streaks of black on the nail at the end 

 of the bill, diverging like the letter V, the angle towards the tip.* 



THE FEMALE. 



Anas minuta, Lin. i. 204. Gin. Lin. i. 534. Brun. No. 86. Fn. groenl. No. 46. 



Querquedula freti Hudsonis, Bris. vi. 469. Id. Svo. ii. 483. 



Die Zwergente, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 673. 



La Sarcelle brune et blanche, Buf. ix. 287. PL enl. 799. 



Little brown and white Duck, Edw. pi. 157. Cat. Car. i. pi. 98. 



Harlequin Duck, female, Gen. Syn. vi. 485. 



LENGTH thirteen inches. Bill black ; irides hazel ; the fore- 

 head and between the bill and eye white; on the ear a spot of the 

 same; head, neck, and back, brown, palest on the fore part of the 

 neck ; upper part of the breast and rump rufous brown; lower part 

 of the breast and belly barred with rufous and white, but the lower 

 belly and thighs with rufous and brown; scapulars and wing coverts 



* Brunnich, No. 85. 



