HARLEQUIN DUCK. 
LORD AND LADY. 
1 1 ISTRIONICUS HISTRIONICUS. 
Char. Male: xipper parts chiefly bluish black, the wings varied with 
white; wing-patch purple; stripes of white on head, neck, and breast; 
stripes of chestnut on sides of crown ; breast and belly grayish brown, 
sides chestnut; bill bluish black; legs and feet leaden blue, Length 
about 17 inches. The female smaller and of a general grayish brown 
color above ; band of white around base of bill ; belly dull white. t 
Nest. Usually on the ground close to a stream, — sometimes in a hol- 
low tree ; made of grass and sedges and lined with feathers. 
Egs;s. 6-to; warm cream color, often tinged with olive ; 2.30 X 1.70. 
This singularly marked and beautiful species is almost i 
a constant resident of the hyperboreal regions of the north- j 
ern hemisphere, from which it migrates but short distances ! 
towards more temperate latitudes, and is, as in Europe, a rare 
