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MERGUS ALBELLUS. THE PIED SMEW. 



SMEW. WHITE NUN. PIED DIVER, VARE WIGEON. 



Mergus Albellus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 209. 



Mergus Albellus. Lath. lud. Ornith. II. 831. 



Mergus minutus. Linn, and Lath. Young. 



Smew. Mont. Ornith. Diet, and Supplt. 



Harle Piette. Mergus Albellus. Lath. Ind. Ornith. II. 887. 



Smew or White Nun. Mergus Albellus. Selby, lUustr. II. 385. 



Mergus Albellus. Smew. Jenyns. Brit. Vert. Anim. 250. 



Mergus Albellus. Bonap. Comp. List. 59. 



Male loith the hill sJiortcr than the head, an inch and a 

 quarter in length, three-twelfths and~a-half 171 breadth behind 

 the unguis ; a decurved longitudinal white crest; a patch of 

 greenish-black on the fore part of the cheek, and a band of the 

 same along the side of the occiput ; the neck, scapulars, 

 smaller wing-coverts, and lower parts, tvhite ; the back black, 

 shaded into grey behind ; a tra7isverse black line on each side 

 before the wing ; primary quills and coverts brownish-black ; 

 secondary quills and coverts black, tipp)ed with white ; scapu- 

 lars edged with black ; sides partly grey. Female loith the 

 upper part of the head, hind part of cheeks, and nape, hrow7i- 

 ish-red ; a blackish-brown patch on the fore part of the cheek ; 

 throat white ; loiver part of neck all round ash-grey, darker 

 above ; back blackish-grey , its hind part and scapulars ash- 

 grey ; wings as in the male ; lower parts white, with the sides 

 partly grey. Young loith the upper part of the head, cheeks, 

 and nape yellowish-brown ; the upp>er parts dark brownish- 

 grey ; the lower lohite, but xoitli the sides, fore neck, abdomen, 

 and lower tail-coverts grey, patched with dusky ; in other 

 respects nearly like the female. 



Male in Winter. — This beautiful bird, which is some- 



