anatid^;. 459 



[218.] 4. Clangula histrionica. (Leach.) Harlequin Duck. 



Sub-family, Fuligulinae, Sw. Genus, Clangula, Leach. 



Dusky and spotted duck. Edwards, pi. 99, female. 



Anas histrionica {Harlequin duck). Fouster, Phil. Trans., lxii., p. 419, No. 52. 



Harlequin duck {Anas histrionica). Penn., Arct. Zool., ii., No. 490. Wils., viii., pi. 72, f. 4. 



Sowerbv, Brit. Misc., pi. 6. 

 Canard a. collier ou Histrion (Anas histrionica). Temm., ii., p. 878. 

 Fuligula histrionica. Bonap. Syn., p. 394, No. 345. 



Painted Duck, also Mountain Duck. Hudson's Bay Residents. Lord. Newfoundlanders. 

 Pawawistick -weesheep (Cascade duck). Cree Indians. Pawawistic-quess. Chippeways. 



DESCRIPTION 

 Of a male killed on the eastern declivity of the Rocky Mountains. 



Colour. — Medial band from bill to hind-head, posterior part of the back, the rump and tail 

 coverts, velvet-black ; the head-band bounded behind the eye with ferruginous. Middle of 

 the back, the wings, tail, and belly, mostly liver-brown. Nape and sides of the throat rich 

 lavender-purple ; fore part of the back and the breast glossed with the same, which also tinges 

 the brown wing coverts. Large semicircular patch before the eye, round spot on the ears, 

 lateral neck-stripe, collar lower down, broad crescent-shaped shoulder band, longitudinal 

 stripes on the scapulars and tertiaries, one or two spots on the greater coverts, and a small 

 spot on the lateral tail coverts, pure white, all bordered more or less broadly with velvet-black. 

 Speculum black, glossed with indigo-blue. Flanks pure orange-brown. Vent brownish- 

 black. Bill bluish-black. Legs blackish-brown. 



Form. — Bill rather narrower and longer than that of Harelda glacialis ; margins of the 

 upper mandible straight, not hooked at the tip ; unguis large, broadly oval ; a small flap of 

 naked skin at the rictus. Wings an inch and a half shorter than the tapering, pointed tail, 

 which is long, as in the rest of the Garrots. Tail coverts very short. Toes not longer than 

 those of CI. albeola, though this is a much smaller bird. Webs extending to the points of the 

 nails, which are small and rounded. 



The female is dark liver-brown above ; the quills and tail blackish-brown ; the rump and 

 the flank feathers that hang down over the thigh, a paler umber. A spot behind the 

 ears, a smaller one on each side of the forehead, and some mottling under the eye, white. 

 Upper part of the breast and the sides under the wings yellowish-brown, edged with brownish- 

 grey. Rest of the under plumage greyish- white, broadly barred across the middle of each 

 feather with clove-brown. She is much inferior in size to the male. 



Dimensions. 



Length, total 

 „ of tail 



Inch. 



20 



4 



Lin. 

 

 4 



Length of bill above . 

 ,, of bill to rictus 



Inch. 



1 

 . 1 



Lin. 

 1 

 8 



Length of middle toe 

 „ of its nail . 



Inch. 

 o 

 



Lin. 

 

 3 



„ of wing 



. 8 







,, of tarsus 



1 



6 









— R. 



3 N 2 



