484 D U C K ,
11 •
HARLEQUIN D.
T he Male..
Anas hiftrionica, Lin. Syß. i. p. 204. 35.—Brun. Orn. N° 84. 85.— Muller^
N° 127.—Faun. Groenl. N° 46.—George Reife, p. 16 6 .Phil. Tranf.
Ixii. 417.— Frifcb. t. 157.
Brimond, Olaff. Peel. ii. t. 34.
Le Canard a Collier de Terre Neuve,.Brif Or»..vi. p. ^z.^\\.—Buf..Qif.
ix. p. 250.— PL Enl. 798.
Stone Duck, Hiß. Kamtfch. p. 160.
Dulky and Spotted Duck, Ed'w. pi. 99^
Harlequin Duck, Arfi. Zool. N° 490.
Br. Muf. Lev. Muf.
©•ES-CRIPTION. g I Z E of a Wigeon. Length one foot five inches r breadth twenty-
fix inches: weight eighteen ounces and three-quarters, troy.
Bill near an inch and a half long, and black:* irides hazel: between
the bilLand eye white, in fome yellowifh, or faffron-colour *, extending
a little over the eyes, and beyond: crown of the head
black, bounded by a reddilh ftreak : on each fide of the neck
a-perpendicular line of white; and1 above it a white fpot; except
this, the whole of the neck is black : round the breaft is a white
collar, broadeft behind, where it is marked with black dots, and
is Bounded by-a black one: between this and the wings is a
tranfverfe mark of white : the breaft, below the collar, blueilh
alh-colour: the back dulky brown, inclined to purple: rump
deep blue black : belly and thighs black: fides dull orange: on-
each fide of the tail a fpot of white : the prime quills dulky
alh-colour, fome of them tipped with white: tail brown: legs,
blueilh black. In one of thefe were found two ftreaks of black.
* Muller.
on
on the nail at the end of the bill, diverging like the letter V,
the angle towards the tip *.
Anas minnta, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 204. 36.— Brun, N* 86.— Faun. Groenl.
N° 46.
La Sarcelle de la Bayede Hudfon, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 469/41.
Le Canard brun, Buf Oif. ix. p. 252.— PL Enl. 1007.
--------- ■ brun & blanche, Buf. Oif. ix. p. 287.— PL Enl. 799.
Little Brown and White Duck, Ed'w. pi. 157.— Catefb. Car. i. pi. 98.
Lev. Muf.
J ^ E N G TH . thirteen inches and a half. Bill black : irides
hazel: the forehead, and between the bill and eye, white:
on the ear a fpot of the fame: head, neck, and back, brown,
paleft on the fore part of the neck : upper part of the bread: and
rump rufous brown: lower part of the bread: and belly barred
with pale rufous and white, but the lower belly and thighs
with rufous and brown: fcapulars and wing coverts rufous
brown; the outer greater ones blackilh: quills and tail dulky,
the lad: inclined to rufous : legs dulky.
The two lad: defcribed are male and female, and are found both
on the old and new continents : on the firft, feen as far fouth as
the "Lake Baikal, and from thence to Kamtfchatka, particularly
up the river Ochotjka-, alfo in Iceland, and as low as Sondmor j-.
In America, from Carolina to Newfoundland J, and Hudfon’s Bay ,
alfo in Greenland: in the lad:, frequents, during fummer, lays
and rivers, efpecially near their mouths, but not in great plenty,
and is a very noify fpecies. It is fond of lhady places, and.
* Brunnich. - + Ar3. Zool.
J.The filhermen at this place, call it the Lord.—Ed'w»
makes,
38-
HARLEQUIN D
The Female.
D escriptions
Place and'
Manners.