HARLEQUIN DUCK. 
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^fescents and circles of white which ornament its neck 
*>1(1 breast. Though an inhabitant of both continents, 
,'ttle else i.s known of its particular manners than that 
jl Swims and dives well ; Hies swift, and to a great 
■*®>ght; and has a whistling note. Is said to frequent 
.'>>e small rivulets iidaiid from Hudson’s Bay, where it 
j^eeds. Th<! female lays ten white eggs on the grass ; 
*6 young are prettily speckled. It is found on the 
pastern continent as far south as Lake Baikal, and 
Jneiice to Kamtscbatka, particidarly up tlm river 
j »hotska ; and was also met with at Aoonalashka and 
jli'land.* At Hudson’s Bay, it is called the painted 
i'lek ; at Ni’wfoundland, and along the coast of New 
^,»gland, tlic lord ; it is an active vigorous div(!r, and 
"^len seen in deep water, considerably out at sea. 
. The harbupiiu duck, so called from the singularity of 
markings, is seventeen inches in length, and twenty- 
'■’?lit inches in extent; the bill is of moderate length, 
'*1 a lead colour, tipt with red ; irides, dark ; upper part 
’’1 the head, bhu^k; between the eye and bill, a broad 
*P»ce of white, e.xtending over the eye, and ending in 
*^*'ldish ; behind the ear, a similar spot ; neck, black ; 
*»ding below iu a circle of white ; breast, deep slate ; 
'inildcrs or sides of the breast, marked with a semicircle 
?* white; belly, black; sides, chestnut; body above, 
^ek, or deep slate, some of the scapulars, white ; 
^'■■‘later wing-coverts, tipt with the same; legs and feet, 
*^sp ash ; vent and pointed tail, black. 
The female is described as being less, “ the forehead, 
“'bl bet ween the bill and eye, white, n itli a si>ot of the 
^^0 behind the ear; head, neck, and back, brown, 
I 'est on the fore part of the neck; upper part of the 
lj*'>-‘ast, and rump, red brown ; lower breast and belly, 
.btiaHl pale rufous and white; behind the thighs, rufous 
’'bd brown ; scapulars and wing-coverts, rufous brown; 
j.bler greater ones, blackish ; quills and tail, dusky, the 
inclining to rufous; legs, dusky.”# 
Tile few specimens of this duck which I have met 
* Latham. 
