FORKED MERGANSER. 



pulars and lesser wing-coverts deep blue ; the greater 

 coverts the same, tipped with white : the primaries 

 deep blue : the secondaries the same within, and white 

 without : the throat and belly white : the breast and 

 vent blue : the tail black : the legs blue. 



Inhabits North America; appearing in Hudson's 

 Bay in June, and departing in October : it is said to 

 lay ten small white eggs in a hollow stump, or among 

 rotten wood near the water, without attempting to 

 construct any nest : the young, when hatched, are 

 diligently attended by the mother to the water, im- 

 mediately upon bursting the shell. 



FORKED MERGANSER? 



(Merganser ? furcifer.) 



ME? niger capite Icevi, collo crisso abdomine rectricibusque late- 



ralibus albis,Jronte genisque dilute juscis, caudajurcata. 

 Black Merganser ? with a smooth head, the neck, vent, abdomen, 



and lateral tail-feathers white, the forehead and cheeks pale 



brown, the tail forked. 

 Mergus furcifer. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 548. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 



832. 

 Forked Merganser. Lath. Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 339. 



" INHABITS Courland : the beak is black at the tip 

 and the base ; but the middle is reddish : the irides 

 pale brown : from the ears, down the sides of the 

 neck, quite to the breast, a black stripe, shaded for 

 half the length with chesnut : hind head and neck 



