55 8 RED BREASTED MERGANSER. Class II. 



261- Red Anas Longiroitra. Gefner av, Braun kopfiger Tilger, 

 breasted. 1 33. Aldr.av. III. 113. Taucher. Kram. 343. 



The Serula. Wil. orn. 336. Mergus ferrator. Lin, fyjl. 

 Raii fyn. av. 135. 20S. 



LcfTcr toothed Diver. Mor- Pracka. Faun, Suec. fp. 136. 



ton's Northampt. 429. Danis Fifk-And. Brunnich % 

 L' Harle hupe. Brijfon a-v. 96. 



VI. 237. Br, Zool. 147. 



Descrip. flHHIS fpecies weighs two pounds : the length 

 •*- is one foot nine inches ; the breadth two fttt 

 feven : the bill is three inches long; the lower man- 

 dible red -, the upper dufky : the irides a purplifh 

 red : head and throat a fine changeable black and 

 green : on the firft a long pendent creft of the 

 fame color : upper part of the neck, of the breaft, 

 and the whole belly white : lower part of the breaft 

 ferruginous, fpotted with black : upper part of the 

 back black : near the fettins; on of the wings fome 

 white feathers, edged and tipt with black : the 

 exterior fcapulars black ; the interior white : lower 

 part of the back, the coverts of the tail, and fear 

 thers on the fides under the wings and over the 

 thighs grey, elegantly marked with ziczag lines of 

 black: coverts on the ridge of the wings dufky j 

 then fucceeds a broad bar of white: the greater 

 coverts half black, half white : the fecondaries next 

 the quil feathers marked in the fame manner ; the 

 reft white, edged on one fide with black : the quil 



feathers 



