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Mergus serrator LINN®us. Red-breasted Merganser. [130.] 
Mergus serrator Linnaus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 129. (Sweden.) 
RancE.— Northern part of Northern Hemisphere. Breeds in 
North America from Arctic coast of Alaska, northern Mackenzie, 
Cumberland Sound, and Greenland (lat. 73°) south to southern British 
Columbia, southern Alberta, southern Minnesota, central Wisconsin, 
northern New York, southern Maine, and Sable Island; winters in 
southern Greenland, the Commander Islands, and from southern 
British Columbia, Utah, Colorado, southern Wisconsin, southern 
Ontario, and Maine south to southern Lower California, Louisiana, 
and Florida; casual in Bermuda, Cuba, and Hawaii. 
GENUS LOPHODYTES REICHENBACH. 
Lophodytes REICHENBACH, Syst. Avium, 1852, ix. Type, by orig. desig., 
Mergus cucullatus LINN&®US. 
Lophédytes cucullétus (LINN=us). Hooded Merganser. [131.] 
Mergus cucullatus Linnm=us, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 129. (Virginia 
or Carolina.) 
Rance.— North America. Breeds from central British Columbia, 
Great Slave Lake, central Keewatin, central Ungava, and Newfound- 
land south to southern Oregon, northern New Mexico, southern 
Louisiana, and central Florida; winters from southern British Colum- 
bia, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and 
Massachusetts south to Lower California, Mexico, the Gulf States, 
and Cuba; rare in northeastern part of range; recorded from St. 
Michael, Alaska, and from Europe and Bermuda. 
[GENUS MERGELLUS SE xpy. 
Mergellus SEtBy, Catal. Gen. and Subgen. Types Birds, 1840, 47. Type, 
by monotypy, Mergus albellus LINN aus. 
Mergéllus albéilus (LiInN=us). Smew. [131.1.] 
Mergus albellus Linnzvs, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 129. (“....ex 
Gino insula Smirnam,” Turkey.) 
