RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 165 



fish, amphibious animals, or marine mollusca, which 

 renders their flesh very unpalatable, and being where- 

 withal very lean and rancid, is held in very little 

 estimation. 



RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 



(Merganser serrata.) 



ME. specufa alarum albo,Jasciis duabus nigris tnauoersit in mare, 



eel und in femina. 

 Merganser with the wing-speculum white, with two transverse 



black bands in the male, and one in the female. 

 Mergus serrata. Linn. Syst. Nat. \ . 208. GrneL Syst. Nat. \ . 



546. Lath- Ind. Orn. 2. 829. Sabine, Frank. Journ. App. 702. 

 Mergus serrata leucomelanus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1.546. $. Briss. 



Orn. 6. 250. 



Mergus cirrhatus fuscus. Raii, Syn. 135. A. 

 Mergus cristatus. Briss. Orn. 6. 237. pi. 23. 

 Merganser cristatus. Leach, Brit. Mus. Catal. p. 36. 

 Le Harle huppe. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 273. Buff. PL Enl. 



207- Temm. man. d'Orn. 579. Id. 2 Edit. ii. 884. Cuv. Reg. 



Anim. 1. 540. 



Harle a manteau noire. Biiff". Hist. Nat. Ois. S. 277. 

 Red-breasted Merganser. Penn. Brit. Zool. 2. 261. pi. 93. 



Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 466. Ediv. Glean, pi. 95. Alb. Birds, 



2. pi. 101 . Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 423. Lath. Syn. Sup. ii. 337. 



Leu-in. Brit. Birds, 6. pi. 233. Wale. Syn. 1. pi 81. Don. 



Brit. Birds, 2. pi. 38. Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. and Sup. Lath. 



Linn. Trans, iv. 121. pi. 16. f. \, 2. (trachea.) Beiv. Brit. 



Birds, 2. 261. fHls. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 8l.pl. Ixix.^ 2. 



male. 



YOUNG. Mergus serratus. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 546. a. 

 Mergus uiger. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 546. |3. 



