60 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Lophodytes cucullatus (Linnaeus). Hooded Merganser. [131.] 



Mergus cucullatus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 129. Based on 

 The Round-crested Duck, Anas cristatus Catesby, Carolina, I, 94. (in 

 America = South Carolina.) 



Range. — -Breeds locally in temperate North America, from northern British 

 Columbia, central Alberta, Manitoba, southern Ontario, and New Brunswick 

 to New York, central Pennsylvania, eastern South Carolina, central Florida, 

 southern Tennessee, northern Arkansas, northern New Mexico, Oregon, and 

 Washington. Winters mainly in the Southern States north to Massachusetts, 

 Pennsylvania, Lake Michigan, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, British Columbia, 

 and southeastern Alaska and south to Cuba and central eastern Mexico. Acci- 

 dental in Bermuda, Alaska, Wales, and Ireland. 



Genus MERGUS Linnaeus. 



Mergus Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1, 1758, 129. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Mergus serrator Linnaeus (Eyton, 1838). 



Mergus merganser americanus Cassin. American Merganser. [129.] 



Mergus americanus Cassin, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., VI, No. 5, Sept.- 

 Oct., 1852 [Dec. 31], 187. (North America.) 



Range. — Breeds in Canada and the northern United States entirely across 

 the continent from the base of the Alaska Peninsula, southern Yukon, Great 

 Slave Lake, Hudson Bay, Ungava Peninsula, and Newfoundland south to 

 west-central Nova Scotia, southern Maine, central New Hampshire, central 

 Vermont, central New York, southeastern Ontario, central Michigan, north- 

 eastern Wisconsin, northwestern Minnesota, southwestern South Dakota, 

 northern New Mexico, north-central Arizona, and central California (formerly 

 to the mountains of western Massachusetts, central Pennsylvania, and Ohio). 

 Winters mainly within the United States from the Aleutian Islands (rarely 

 Pribilof Islands), southern British Columbia, Great Lakes, St. Lawrence Valley, 

 and Prince Edward Island to Florida, the Gulf States, and northern Mexico. 

 Accidental in Greenland. [Allied races occur in Europe and Asia.] 



Mergus serrator Linnaeus. Red-breasted Merganser. [130.] 



Mergus Serrator Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 129. (in Europa 

 = Sweden.) 



Range. — -Breeds from the Arctic coast of Alaska, Anderson River, northern 

 Ungava, and the coast of central Greenland south to Newfoundland, Nova 

 Scotia, New Brunswick, coast of Maine, northern New York, central Ontario, 

 central Michigan, Wisconsin, central Minnesota, southern Manitoba, 

 central All)erta, northern British Columbia, southeastern Alaska, and the 

 Aleutian Islands; also in Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, Scandinavia, northern 

 Russia, northern Siberia, and the Kurile Islands. Winters on the Atlantic and 



