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THE HARLEQUIN GARROT. 
Glanrjula histrionica. 
PLATE VI. 
Anas histrionica, Linn . — Canard histrion, Temm . — Harlequin 
Duck, or Garrot of British authors. 
This species has been placed here, but in the form 
of the bill it differs slightly from the truo Garrets and 
approaches to the next genus, ITarelda. The colours 
in this bird are also chiefly black and white con- 
trasted, but these are harmonized or warmed, as it 
were, by a mixture of chestnut-red and grey, giving 
the whole a chaste appearance, though very varied. 
At the base of the bill, and reaching nearly to the 
eye, is a large patch of pure white, running off at its 
upper angle in a narrow line along the sides of the 
crown ; from the forehead along the centre of the 
crown and occiput is deep black, bordered on each 
side by the white line already mentioned, and suc- 
ceeding that by a continuation of pale reddish-brown, 
almost meeting at the termination of the central 
black ; nape and cheeks rich purplish-grey, shading 
into bluish-black on the fore and lower part of the 
neck ; behind the auriculars there is an irregular 
patch, and farther down a lengthened streak of 
white, having the space between of a deeper black ; 
the lower part of the neck is terminated by a collar 
