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MERGANSER CUCULLATUS. THE HOODED 

 GOOSANDER. 



HOODED MERGANSER. 



Mergus cuciillatus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 207. 



Mergus cucullatus. Lath. Ind. Ornith, II. 830. 



Hooded Merganser. Mergus cucullatus. Audubon Om. Biog. III. 246, v, 



619. 

 Harle couronne. Mergus cucullatus. Temm. Man. d' Ornith. IV. 557. 



Hooded Mei'ganser. Mergus cucullatus, Selby, Illustr. II. 383. 



Mergus cucullatus. Hooded Merganser. Jen. Brit. Vert. Anim. 249. 



Mergus cucullatus. Bonap. Comp. List, 59. 



Male with the hill nearly as long as the head, ati inch and 

 three-fourths in length, three-ticelfths in breadth hehind the 

 unguis ; a large longitudinal compressed semicircular hlack 

 crest, ivith an angidar patch of white hehind ; head, upper 

 neck, hind part of lower, and the greater part of the hack, 

 hlack ; lower fore-neck and hreast white ; two transverse 

 curved lines on each side before the wing ; sides yellowish- 

 hrown, finely undulated with hlack ; primary quills and 

 coverts brownish-hlack ; outer secondary quills and coverts 

 greenish-black, white toward the end ; inner white, with black 

 margins. Female loith the crest smaller and decurved ; the 

 upper part of the head reddish-brown ; cheeks and tipper neck 

 greyish-brown ; throat greijish-white ; loioer part of neck grey ; 

 hack hlackish-hrown ; icings without white on the inner secon^ 

 daries ; lower parts greyish-white ; the sides dusky hroivn. 

 Yoimg similar to the femcde, more tinged loith brown above, 

 and faintly barred with grey beneath. 



Male in Winter. — The Hooded Goosander, scarcely 

 inferior in beauty to the Pied Smew, and slightly exceeding 

 it in size, is precisely similar to that species in form, but with 



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