HARLEQUIN DUCK.
HARLEQUIN GARROT.
Anas htsirioMca,
Clangula histrionicat
PENN A NT. M o N T A G U .
FLEMING. SELDY.
Anas—A Duck. His/rionka—Histrionic.
THE Harlequin Duck, which derives its name from its variegated
plumage, though on the whole it is of a dark appearance, is another
northern species, and in Europe appertains the most to Iceland,
Russia, Sweden, and those parts, and has occurred in France and
Germany, In Asia it is known in Kamtschatka, and in Siberia,
about Lake Baikal, and thence proceeds, according to the season,
to the lower latitudes of Lake Aral and the Caspian Sea. In America
it is common about the Bay of Fundy, Labrador, Newfoundland,
Hudson's Bay, Greenland, and in winter advances southwards to the
United States. It is mentioned also by Dr. Richardson as occurring
in the vicinity of the Rocky Mountains.
These birds breed in Iceland.
A Harlequin Duck was once purchased in the market at Yarmouth,
in Norfolk: an adult male is said to have been killed near that
place. A female of this species was shot on the River Don, near
Doncaster. In Devonshire one in the winter of 1830. Two the same
season were purchased in the London Market by Mr. Yarrell. In
Cheshire one, a female, was shot by the gamekeeper of Sir Philip
de Malpas Grey Egcrton, Bart.
In Scotland a pair were formerly obtained by Lord Seaford; another
was shot near Gordon Castle, on the Spey, Banffshire, in October,
1851. In Orkney one, a female, has occurred.
I t is altogether, as is related, a bird of the sea and its inlets, and
the mouths of rivers, excepting during the breeding-season, and even
then it appears not to go more than a mile or so from such to small