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found also, says the same spirited writer, as far south as Lake 
Baikal, and from thence to Kamsehatka. It is also met with, 
according to Latham, in Iceland. 
The male Harlequin Duck has the bill lead colour, tipped 
with red ; irides, dark hazel ; crown, black ; between the base 
of the bill and the eye is a triangular patch of white, with the 
small end towards the bill. From the upper corner of the white 
patch, a streak of brown, of variable intensity, proceeds over the 
eye to the occiput. Back of the neck, black, with an elongated 
white streak on each side ; throat, and upper part of the neck, 
shining violet black ; auricular patch, white ; collar, and a 
streak extending nearly from the point of one wing round the 
front of the breast to that of the other, wing coverts, and largest 
tertials, white ; breast and belly, brownish ; vent, brown ; tail, 
dark umber brown; wing spot, purple; quills, dark brown. 
Female, brown, with the margins of the feathers paler ; spot 
between the base of the bill and the eye, and auricular spot, 
white ; belly and vent, white, blotched with brown. Length of 
the male, sixteen and a half inches ; breadth, twenty-seven 
inches : the female rather smaller. 
Edwards relates, that the Newfoundland fishermen call it the 
Lord ; and supposes the reason to be, from the likeness to a 
chain it has round its neck ; “ seeing the wearing gold chains is 
an ancient mark of dignity in Europe.” His etching of it, under 
the name of the Dusky and Spotted Duck, is a very fair one. 
