HARLEQUIN DUCK. Gil 
HARLEQUIN DUCK. (Anas histrionica.) 
PLATE LXXII.—Fie, 4. 
Le Canard a collier de Terre Neuve, Briss. vi. p. 362, 14.—Buff. ix. p. 250,.— 
Pl. enl. 798.—Arct. Zool. No. 490.—Lath. Syn. iii. p. 484. 
CLANGULA HISTRIONICA.—LEACH.* 
Clangula histrionica, Bonap. Synop. p. 394.—North. Zool. ii. p. 459.—Canard a 
collier, ou Histrion, Zemm. Man. ii. p. 878. 
THIS species is very rare on the coasts of the middle and 
southern States, though not unfrequently found off those of 
New England, where it is known by the dignified title of the 
lord, probably from the elegant crescents and circles of white 
which ornament its neck and breast. ‘Though an inhabitant 
of both continents, little else is known of its particular manners 
than that it swims and dives well, flies swift, and to a great 
height, and has a whistling note. Is said to frequent the 
small rivulets inland from Hudson’s Bay, where it breeds. 
The female lays ten white eggs on the grass ; the young are 
prettily speckled. It is found on the eastern continent as far 
south as Lake Baikal, and thence to Kamtschatka, particularly 
up the river Ochotska, and was also met with at Aoonalashka 
and Iceland.+ At Hudson’s Bay, it is called the painted 
duck ; at Newfoundland, and along the coast of New England, 
the lord. It is an active vigorous diver, and often seen in deep 
water, considerably out at sea. 
The harlequin duck, so called from the singularity of its 
markings, is seventeen inches in length, and twenty-eight 
inches in extent; the bill is of moderate length, of a lead 
colour, tipt with red; irides, dark; upper part of the head, 
black ; between the eye and bill, a broad space of white, ex- 
* Dr Richardson observes of this duck—“ C. histrionica haunts eddies 
under cascades, and rapid streams. It takes wing at once when dis- 
turbed, and is very vigilant. We never saw it associating with any 
other duck, and it is a rare bird.” —Ep. 
7 Latham. 
