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MERGANSER SERRATOR. THE RED-BREASTED 

 GOOSANDER. 



EED-BKEASTED MERGANSER. IIARLE. EARL-DUCK. SIOLTE. 



Mergus Serrator. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 208. 

 Mergus Serrator. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 829. 

 Eed-breasted Merganser. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 

 Harle huppe. Mergus Serrator. Temm. Man. d'Ornith. II. 884. 

 Red-breasted Merganser. Mergus Serrator. Selby, Illustr. Brit. Omith. II. 



379. 

 Mergus Serrator. Eed-breasted Merganser. Jen. Brit. Vert. Anini. 249. 

 Merganser Serrator. Bonap. Comp. List, 59. 



Male ticenty-four inches long, ivith a lojigitudijial crest of 

 linear feathers, of ichich two separate tufts are longer than the 

 rest ; the bill and feet red ; the head and upper neck greenish- 

 hlack ; the hack black before, grey with dusky lines behind ; 

 the middle fore-neck light-red, streaked with dusky ,• breast 

 and abdomen pure ivhite ; sides and hind part of back undu- 

 lated with dark-grey lines ; a ichite patch on the tving, includ- 

 ing the smaller iving- coverts, with two transverse black bands. 

 Female ivith the crest smaller ; the bill and feet of a duller 

 tint ; the head and upper neck light reddish-brown ; the 

 throat whitish ; the loiver neck broionish-grey ; the feathers 

 edged icith ivhite ; the breast and abdoincn ichite ; the sides 

 grey ; the feathers edged with pialer ; the ichite patch on the 

 iving as in the male, but not extending to the smaller iving- 

 coverts, ichich are grey, and thus liaving only one dark band. 

 Young similar to the female, but more brown above. 



Male in Winter. — This species, not very fitly named 

 the Red-breasted Merganser, the lower part of its neck, 

 which is reddish and streaked with black, having been mis- 

 taken for its breast, which is pure white, is inferior in size to 

 the Buif-breasted Merganser, or Goosander, and of a more 



