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gentleman to have been killed by the game-keeper 
of Sir Philip Egerton, in Cheshire, during the winter 
of 1840. Straggling specimens also occur in Central 
Europe, and to the north, where perhaps a few may 
breed, hut in the Old World it seems rather to retreat 
towards the north west. America seems to he the 
true country of the Harlequin Garret, and it is well 
known to her ornithologists; Audubon found them 
breeding in the Bay of Fundy, under the hushes a 
few yards from the water, but in Newfoundland 
and Labrador they frequent for the same purpose, 
the inland lakes, incubating near their edges. 
Following this bird we shall describe the genus 
Harelda, which we stated had, in outward form, 
some resemblance to it, but the Harelds vary in 
addition to the points previously stated, in the struc- 
ture of the trachea and in the great development of 
the tertial feathers and tail. 
Harelda, Hay. — Generic characters. — Bill short, 
elevated at the base, contracting suddenly at 
the tip, nail large, slightly notched, laminas 
strong, apparent ; nostrils basal, linear ; wings 
of mean length, accuminate, first and second 
quill nearly equal, scapulars very long ; tarsi 
short, feet of mean size, hallux lobed ; tail 
elongated. 
Type. — II. fflacialis , &e. Europe, America. 
Note . — Habits maritime; plumage of the summer 
and winter dissimilar. 
