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the neck, rufous; the inferior part cinereous ; below white; specu- 
lum divided by a black bar. 
| IN. IN 
LONER sano tes oe tak 20 ERNEP-LOG fates shank cee ees 2 
ERTIES 5 oaks oy va Caves «S28 WOH E (OO siacicents tes ae 
OTM Rs oss swatmepetess 24 CULT LOE sc iacestan sbeees ' 22 
Male: head and upper part of the neck glossy greenish black, the 
former crested ; middle of the neck with a white collar; lower part of 
_ the neck and breast ferruginous, spotted with black; upper part of the 
back, scapulars, and sides of the breast black; wing coverts white, 
with a black bar across the larger ones; tail grey; flanks and lower 
part of the back white, undulated with narrow black lines; below 
white; irides reddish; bill orange, with the culmen black. 
Fem.: head and crest brown; remainder of the neck greyish 
brown; secondaries, abdomen, and lower part of the breast white. 
Young similar to the female. 
WICLGUT SEVFOCOM GD, soos 0cicessanse Linn. Syst. 1. 208. 
Gmel. Syst. 1. 545, 
Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 829. 
Mergus serrator leucomelas.... Gmel. Syst. 1. 546. 
————  SEVTALUS wecceccccccecceees Gmel. Syst. 1. 546. A. 
UE SEB SEE ASP Gmel. Syst. 1. 546. B. 
: BV ISEATUS Tova sae obewec eek Briss.-Orn. 6, 237: Zag. 2d. 
Red-breasted Merganser ........ Penn. Aret. Zool. 2. 466. 
Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 423. 
Be Harlé, up pes. ics osssvsteces Buff. Ois. 8. 278. 
- Harle a mantedu notr ....0.00. .. Buff. Ois. 8. 277. 
Sea EPIC a oun b x tu'conslesi oe eee Temm. Man. Orn, 2. p, 884. 
MERCUMOCED ects nved cosy cow sey cases ¥48 Linn. Trans. vol. 4, tab. 
16, fig. 1, 2. 
Inhabits nearly the same countries as the preceding, but does 
not extend so far southwards; breeds in the neighbourhood of the 
arctic circle and in the Highlands of Scotland, on the borders of 
fresh water lakes, making its nest of dried herbage, lined with down 
stripped from its own body; lays from eight to twelve eggs of a 
brownish yellow colour. 
| MERGUS BRAZILIANUS. 
Mer.—Niger, capite colloque viride-eeneis. 
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