SPECIES .86. ^NAS HISTRIONICS. 
HARLEQUIN DUCK. 
[Plate LXXIL— Fig. 4, Male.-] 
Le Canard (2 Collier de Terre Neuve, Briss. \i, p. 362. 14.— Buff. 
IX, p. 250. — I'l. Enl. 798. — Jlrct. Zool. JST o. 490. — Lath. Syn. 
Ill, p. 484.* 
This species is very rare on the coasts of the middle and 
southern states, though not unfrequently found off those of New 
England, where it is known by the dignified title of the Lord, 
probably from the elegant crescents and circles of white which 
ornament its neck and breast. Though an inhabitant of both 
continents, little else is known of its particular manners than 
that it swims and dives well; flies swift, and to a great height; 
and has a whistling note. It is said to frequent the small rivu- 
lets inland from Hudson’s Bay, where it breeds. The female 
lays ten white eggs on the grass; the young are prettily speck- 
led. It is found on the eastern continent as far south as lake 
Baikal, and thence to Kamtschatka, particularly up the river 
Ochotska; and was also met with at Aoonalashka and Iceland.! 
At Hudson’s Bay it is called the Painted Duck, at Newfound- 
land and along the coast of New England, the Lord; it is an ac- 
tive vigorous diver, and often seen in deep water, considerably 
out at sea. 
The Harlequin Duck, so called from the singularity of its 
markings, is seventeen inches in length, and twenty-eight in- 
ches in extent; the bill is of a moderate length, of a lead colour 
*Jnas HiUrionica, Gmel. Sijst. i, p. 534, JVo. 35; .ft.minuta, lb. Ao. 36, fe- 
male. — Ind. Orn.p. S49,A'o. 45. — Gen. Syn. iii, p. 4S4, 4S5, female. — Dusky and 
Spotted Duck, Edwarbs, pi. 99; Litlte Brown and While Duck, Id.pl. 157, /e- 
male. — La Sarcelle de la BayedeHu,dson,liniss.\j, p.469, No. 41,/67na;f. — T emm. 
.Man. d'Orn. p. 878. 
t Latham. 
