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HOODED MERGANSER. 



(Merganser cucullatus.) 



ME. crisia globosa utrinque alba, corpore supra Jusco, subtus albo. 

 Merganser with a globose crest, white on each side, the body above 



brown, beneath white. 

 Mergus cucullatus. Linn. Syst. Nat. 1 . 207- Gmel. Syst. Nat. 



1. 544.. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 830. Sabine, Frank. Journ. App. 



702. 



Merganser Virginianus cristatus. Briss. Orn. 6. 258. 

 Ecatotol altera. Rail, Syn. 175. 

 Le Harle couronne. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 8. 280. Buff. PI. 



Enl. 935, 936. 



Wind Bird. Will. Birds, 389. 

 Round-crested Duck. Gates. Carol. 1. pi. 94. Edw. Glenn. 



pi 360. 

 Hooded Merganser. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. 467. Lath. Gen. Syn. 



6. 426. pi. 101. Wils. Amer. Orn. v. viii. p. 79. pi. Ixix.y. 1. 



THE Hooded Merganser is eighteen inches in 

 length, and two feet in extent : beak blackish-red, nar- 

 row, thickly toothed, and furnished with a projecting 

 nail at the extremity : the head is ornamented with a 

 large circular crest, which the bird has the faculty of 

 elevating or depressing at pleasure : the fore part of 

 this, as far as the eye, is black ; from thence to the 

 hind head white, and elegantly tipped with black ; 

 it is composed of two separate rows of feathers, ra- 

 diating from each side of the head, and which may 

 be easily divided by the hand : irides golden : eye 

 very small : neck black, the colour spreading to and 

 over the back : part of the lesser wing-coverts very 



