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Br. ZoqI. N° 262. — La Piette, De Buffon, viii. 275.—/'/. Enl. 449, 450. ^68. Smew. 



Le Harle couronne, De Buffon, viii. 2S0.— PL Enl. 935, 936. — Latham, ill. 

 — Lev. Mus. 



With a lead-colored bill : horizontal creft, white above, 

 black beneath : eyes included in a large oval fpot, black, 

 glofled with green, which extends to the bafe of the bill : neck, and 

 whole under fide of the body, pure white : wings andfcapulars parti- 

 colored with black and white : tail deep afli-color : legs blueifh grey. 

 Length eighteen inches. Extent twenty-fix. Weight thirty- 

 four ounces. Head of the Female * ruft-colored, and flightly creft- 

 ed : around the eyes a fpot of the fame color and form as in the male ; 

 neck grey, darkefl: behind : in the other marks refembles the male 

 except the legs, which are grey. 



This fpecies was fent to Mrs. Blackburn from New Tork^ I think as Place. 



a winter bird. In Europe it extends to Iceland: vifits Britain in the 

 fevere feafon. In the Ruffian empire frequents the fame places with 

 the Goosander. Each of thefe retire fouthward at approach of 

 winters and are obferved returning up the Volga \n February, tending 

 towards the north. Migrates, during fummer, even as low as Tinos 

 in the Archipelago f . 



* Confiding in other writers, I made, in my Britijh Zoology, another fpecies of the 

 female of the Smew, under the name of the Red-headed, N" 263. The bird I thought 

 to be the female, and call the Lough Diver, is a diftinft kind. Mr. Plymley in- 

 forms me that he diiTefled feveral, and found males and females without any diAinftion 

 of plumage in either fax. 



t Extraiis, ii. 146. — Haffelquijl, 369. 



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