HARLEQUIN DUCK. 
355. Histrionicus histrionicus. 17 inches. 
A beautiful and most attractive bird as shown in the 
illustration. It is not the colors alone that make them so 
attractive, but the way the colors are placed. The white 
being in long stripes, crescents or large spots, with black, gray 
and chestnut. They are usually found only in pairs among the 
swiftly running streams, or in the winter in small flocks on 
the coasts. 
Nest. —Is nicely woven of weeds and grasses and lined with 
down placed on the ground in crevices of rocks or sometimes 
in the hollow of a tree. 5 to 8 greenish buff eggs (2.30 x 1.60). 
Range. —Northern North America, breeding from Alaska to 
the central part of California among the mountain streams. 
PACIFIC EIDER. 
161. Somateria v-nigra. 23 inches. 
This bird is in plumage like the Northern Eider, except that it 
has a black Y-shaped mark on the throat. They nest sparingly 
on the Aleutian Islands, but in great numbers farther north. 
Nest. —They make their nests of seaweed and grass, warmly 
lining same with down from their breasts. 6 to 8 eggs. 
(3.00 x 2.00). 
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