63. LOPnoDYTES. 469 



Am. B. 2iid ed. p. 177, n. 745 (1882) ; B. O. U. List Brit. B. 



p. 137 (1883) ; Saund. Yarrell's Brit. B. iv. p. 509 (1884-85) ; Seeb. 



Hist. Brit. B. iii. p. G33, pi. 07 (egg-) (1885) ; Cory, List B. West 



Lid. p. 31 (1885) ; Tristr. Cat. Coll. B. p. 46 (1889) ; Hartert, 



Kat. Vogelsamml. p. 234 (1891). 

 Harle hiippg do Virginie, D'Auhent. PI. Enl. 935 ( d" ), 936 ( $ ). 

 Ilarlo couroiin6, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. viii. p. 280 (1783). 

 Uoodod Merganser, Peun. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 538, n. 467 (1785) ; Lath, 



Syn. iii. 2, p. 426, n. 4, t. ci. (1785). 

 PBrown Merganser, Pe7in. Arct. Zoul. ii. Suppl. p. 74 (1787) (Hudson's 



Bay). 

 ? Mergus fuscus, Lath. Lnd. Orn. ii. p. 832, n. 9 (1790) (ex Pennant) ; 



Vieill. N. D. xiv. p. 224 (1817) (= cucuUatus ?) ; Bum. Diet. Sc. 



Nat. XX. p. 297 (1821). 

 Merganser cucullatus, Bonn. Enc. MeVi. i. p. 103, pi. 27. f. 2 (1790) ; 



Step/i. Gen. Zool. xii. 2, p. 168 (1824) ; Bp. Comp. Lut, p. 59 



(1838) ; id. Cat. Met. TJcc. Eur. p. 74 (1842) ; Macgill. Man. Orn. 



ii. p. 196(1842). 

 Merganser fuscus, Steph. Gen. Zool. xii. 2, p. 170 (1824). 

 Lophodytes cucullatus, Rchnh. Av. Syst. Nat. p. ix (1852) ; Bp. 



Co7npt. Rend, xliii. p. 652, n. 171 (1856) ; Baird, B. N. Am. p. 816 



(1858); id. Cat. N. Am. B. n. 613 (1859) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1859, 



p. 369 (Jalapa) ; Coop. ^ Suckl. N. H. Wash. Terr. p. 265 (1860) ; 



Hayd. Rep. 1862, p. 176 ; Verr. Pr. Ess. List. iii. p. 159 (1862); 



Gould, B. Gr. Brit. v. pi. 36 (pt. x., 1866) ; Dress. Ibis, 1866, 



p. 144 (Texas) ; Gundl. Ltepert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i. p. 391 (1866) ; 



Schley. Mus. P.-B., Anseres, p. 5 (1866) ; Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. 



viii. (1866) p. 298 (1867) ; Coues, Pr. Ess. Inst. v. p. 201 (1868) ; 



Dall ^ Bann. Tr. Chic. Acad. i. p. 202 (1869) (Alaska) ; Eyt. Syn. 



Anat. p. 137 (1869) ; Stev. U.S. Geol. Surv. Terr. p. 466 (1870) ; 



G. R. Gr. Hand-list, iii. p. 91, n. 10733 (1871) ; Sundev. Meth. 



nnt. Ao. disp. Tent. p. 150 (1872) ; Allen, Bull. Mus. C. Z. iii. 



p. 183 (1872); Snoic, B. Kans. p. 12 (1873); Gundl.J.f.O. 



1875, p. 385 (Cuba) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, p. 531 ; Ridyw. Nom. 



N. Am. B. n. 638 (1881) ; B., B., ^ R. Water-B.N.Am.ii. p. 121 



(1884) ; Nehrl. J. f. O. 1885, p. 148 (Illinois) ; Matsc/iie ^- Zienier, 



J.f. O. 1885, p. "192; A. O. U. Check-list N. Am. B. p. 114, 



II. 131 (1886) ; Nelson, Nat. Hist. Coll. in Alaska, p. 67 (1887) ; 



Ridgw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 89, n. 131 (1887) ; Cory, Auk, 1888, 



p. 69 ; id. B. W. lnd. p. 270 (1889) ; Hutch, B. of Miimes. p. 36 



(1892). 

 Mergus (Lophodvtes) cucullatus, Coues, Key N. Am. B. 2nd ed. 



p. 718, n. 745 (1884). 



Adult male. Head and upper part of the neck black ; top of the 

 head ornamented with a compressed semicircular crest, the posterior 

 half of which is white, edged with black ; forehead dark fuliginous 

 brown ; back, rump, and upper tail-coverts brown-black ; scapulars 

 deep black ; lower part of the neck in front, breast, and abdomen 

 white ; on the sides of the breast two cresccntic black bands, 

 descending from the upper part of the back ; sides reddish brown, 

 narrowly waved with blackish brown ; under tail-coverts freckled 

 with white, reddish, and brown ; wing-coverts blackish round the 

 edge of the wing, the central ones grey, the greater black Avith the 

 tips white ; quills brown, the secondaries white on the outer web, 

 forming a white speculum on the wing, which is crossed by two 



