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HARLEQUIN DUCK. 

 ANAS HISTRIONICA. 

 [Plate LXXIL— Fig. 4.] 



Lt Canard a Collier de Terre ^eum, Bmss. VI, ji. 362. 14. — Buit. IX, 'p. 250. — Fl. Enl. 798. — JircL 



Zool, JVo. 490.— Lath. Sijn. Ill, ]). 484. 



THIS species is very rare on the coasts of the middle and 

 southern states, tho not unfrequently found off those of New Eng- 

 land, 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. Tho 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 conti- 

 nent as far south as lake Baikal, and thence to Kamtschatka, par- 

 ticularly up the river Ochotska; and was also met with at Aoona- 

 lashka 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 color tipt with 

 red, irides dark ; upper part of the head black ; between the eye 

 and bill a broad space of white, extending over the eye, and end- 



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