WHITE SMEW. 157 



smaller serratures with which its edges are furnished, 

 exclusive of the general habit of the only species 

 hitherto discovered, which feeds more exclusively 

 upon crustaceous animals than the Mergansers. 



WHITE SMEW. 



(Mergus albellus.) 



MB. corpore albo, dorso nigro veljusco-nigricante, occipite tern- 



poribusque viridi-nigris. 

 Smew with a white body, the back black, or dusky brown, the 



occiput and temples green-black. 

 Mergus albellus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1 . 209. Gmel Syst. Nat. 



1. 547. Briss. Orn. 6. 245.pl. 24. f. 1. Lath. Lid. Om. 2. 



831. 



Mergus major cirrhatus. Rait, Syn. 135. A. 

 Mergus Rheni. Raii, Syn. 135. 

 Le petit Harle huppe, ou la Piette. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 



275. Bujf.Pl.Enl.M9. Temm.man.d"Orn.58l. Id. 2 Ed. 



ii. 887. Cuv. Reg. Anim. 1. 540. 

 Smew, or White Nun. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 262. Lath. Gen. 



Syn. 6. 428. Lath. Syn. Sup. 271. Lath. Syn. Sup. ii. 338. 



Leu.'. Brit. Birds, 6. pi. 234. Wale. Syn. 1. pi. 82. Mont. 



Orn. Diet. 2. and Sup. Lath. Linn. Trans. 4. 234. pi. 16. 

 /. 3, 4. (trachea.) Bew. Brit. Birds, 2. 264. Wils. Amer. 



Orn. v. viii. p. 126. pi. xci.y! 4. 

 FEMALE^ or YOUNG. Mergus minutus. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 



209. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 832. 

 Mergus Asiaticus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 543. 

 Merganser stellatus. Briss. Orn. 6. 252. 

 Merganser cristatus minor. Briss. Orn. 6. 243.pl. 24. f. 2. 

 La Piette femalle. Buff. PI. Enl. 450. 

 Le Harle etoile. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 278. 



