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SPECIES 26. dNdS HISTRIONC(d.
                 HARLEQUIN DUCK.
              [Plate LXXII.-Fig. 4, Male.]
Le Canard c Collier de Terre NJ\euve, BRiss. vi, p. 362. 14.- BUFF.
  IX, p. 250.-Ft. En!. 798.-/rct. Zoo!. JVo. 490.-LATH. SYn?.
  iii, 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.t
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  Aer, 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
* Aaas Iistrionica, GMEL. Syst. I, p. 534, .Ao. 35; 1. minuta, lb. No. 36,
fe-
male.-hld. Orn. p. 849, .7Vo. 45.-Gen. Syi. iII, p. 484, 485,female.-Dusky
and
Spotted Duck, EDWAIIDS, pl. 99; Little Brown and White Duck, Id. pl. 157,
fe-
male.-La Sarcelle de la Baye de Hudson, BRiss vT, p. 469, No, 41, female.-
TFMM.
Man. d'Otn. p. 878.
                          i Latham,