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RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 



MERGUS SERRATOR, Linn. 

 PLATE LVIII. AND LVIII*. 



Mergus serrator, Linn. Syst. 1. 208. 3. Gmel. Syst. 1. 545. B Lath. Ind. 



Orn. 2. 829. sp. 4 __ Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 129. sp. 201 Faun. Amer.'JBo- 



real. 2. 462. No. 221FFto. Amer. Orn. 8. 84. pl/69. f. 2. male. 

 Merganser serrata, Shaw's Zool. 12. 165. 

 Mergus serrator leucomelas, Gmel. Syst. 1. 546. D. 

 Mergus cirrhatus fuscus, Raii Syn. 135. A Will. 255. t. 64. 

 Mergus cristatus, Briss. Orn. 6. 237. 2. t. 23. 

 Le Harle huppe', Buff. Ois, 8. 273. Id. PL Enl. 207 Temm. Man. 



d'Ornith. 2. 884 Cwu. Reg. Anim. 1. 540. Lesson. Man d'Ornith. 2. 



420. 



Harle a Manteau noir, Buff. Ois, 8. 277. 

 L,angschnabliger Sager, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 795 Meyer, Tasschenb. 



Deut. 2. 568. 

 Red-breasted Merganser, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 558. pL 93. No. 261 Arct. 



Zool. 2. 466 __ Edw. Glean, pi. 95 __ Albin's Birds, 2. pi. 101 Lewirfs 



Br. Birds, 6. 233 Lath. Syn. 6. 423 Id. Sup. 2. 337 /d. in Trans. 



Linn. Soc. 4. 121. pi. 16. f. 1. 2. (Trachea.) Mont. Ornith. Diet, and 



Sup. Bewick's Br. Birds, ed. 1826. 2. p. t. 257- 

 Mergus serratus, Gmel. Syst. 1. 546. sp. 3. var. A. 

 Mergus niger, Gmel. Syst. 546. B. 

 Merganser niger, Briss. Orn. 6. 251. 5. 



PROVINCIAL Earl-Duck, Harle. 



UPON the Northumbrian and other coasts on the north of 

 England, this species is a regular winter visitant, but always 

 more abundantly in severe than in mild seasons. It haunts the 

 bays and inlets where small streams discharge themselves, as 

 well as the estuaries of rivers, but seldom advances far beyond 

 the influence of the tide. The greater part of those that visit us 

 are females, and young males in the immature plumage ; in 

 which state, except as to size, they strongly resemble the for- 

 mer. In the Highlands and Isles of Scotland these birds are 

 found at all seasons of the year, making the fresh- water lakes 

 of the interior their residence during the summer, and in win- 

 ter, should these become frozen, resorting to the salt-water in- 

 Ms. They breed upon the margins of the lakes, or, in prefer- 

 c, upon the islets with which many of them are diversified. 



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