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HARLEQUIN DUCK. 
HARLEQUIN DUCK ANAS HISTRIONICA. 
Plate LXXII. Fig. L 
Le canard a collier de Terre Neuve, Sriss. vi. p. 362, 14. — Buff. ix. p. 250. — 
Pi. Eul. 798 Arct. Zool. No. 490. — Lath. Syn. iii. p. 484. 
CLANG ULA HISTRIONICA.— LEkcvi.% 
Clangula hlstrlonica, Bonap. Synop. p. 394 North. Zool. ii. p. 459. — Canard a 
collier, on Listrion, Temm. Man. ii. p. 878. 
This species is very rare on the coasts of the middle and 
southern states, though not unfrequently found olf 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. Is said to frequent the 
small rivulets inland from tiudson’s Bay, where it breeds. The 
female lays ten white eggs on the grass ; the young are prettily 
speckled. 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.f At Hudson’s Bay, it is called the painted duck ; at 
Newfoundland, and along the coast of New England, the lord ; 
it is an active 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 
* Dr Richardson observes of this duck — “ C. hislrionica haunts eddies under 
cascades, and rapid streams. It takes wing at once when disturbed, and is very 
vigilant. We never saw it associating with any other duck, and it is a rave 
bird.” — Ed. 
•\- Latham. 
