Class II. S M E W. 559 



feathers du/ky. Tail fhort and brown : legs oran etc 

 colored. 



The head and upper part of the neck of the 

 female of a deep ruft color : the creft fhort : throat 

 white : fore part of the neck and bread marbled 

 with deep afh color : belly white : great quil-fea- 

 thers dufky : lower half of the neareft fecondaries 

 black ; the upper white ; the reft dufky : back, 

 fcapulars, and tail afh colored. The upper half 

 of the firft fecondary feathers white; the lower 

 half black : the others dufky. 



Thefe birds breed in the northern parts of Great 

 Britain ; we have fc^n them and their young on 

 Loch Mari in the county of Rofs, and in the ifle of 

 Hay. 



LaPiette. Be/on av. 171. Lepetitharlehupeou lePiettc. 262. Smew. 



Mergus rhenanus. Gejner av. BriJJbn tvo. VI. 243. Tab. 



, , 3 1 ' 24. fig. 1. & 2. 



Aldr.av. III. in. Kram. 344. 



White Nun. mil. mm. 337. Kreutz-Ente (Crofs-Duck) 



Lough Diver. 338. Frifch, II. 172. 



Rati fyn. av. 135. Cimbris Hviid Side. Evunnich, 



Mergus albellus. Lin. fyfl. 97. 



_, 20 9- Br. '7.00I. 148. Scopoli, No. 89. 

 Faun. Suec. fp. 137, 



ITS weight is thirty-four ounces: the length Descrip. 

 eighteen inches ; the breadth twenty-fix. The 

 bill is near two inches long, and of a lead color : 



the 



