MERGANSER. 
Mergus furcifer, Ind. Orn, iis p. $32. 8.—-Schr. d. Berl. Nat. Fr. vii. S. 458. 32. 
HE bill in this bird is black at the tip and bafe; but the middle 
is reddifh: the irides pale brown: the forehead and back are 
light brown: from the ears, down the fides of the neck, quite to the 
breaft, a black ftripe, fhaded for half the length with chefnut: hind 
head and neck white: breaft, back, and rump black, the feathers ap- 
pearing fcaly: belly and vent white: tail forked, as in the Swallow ; 
the outer feathers white: wing coverts fhaded not unlike the back : 
leffer quills like the back, part of them white, making a long fpot of 
that colour between the back and wings. 
inhabits Courland. 
Mergus fufcus, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 832. 9. 
Brown Merganfer, 4r@. Zool. ii. Sup. p. 74. 
HE length of this is feventeen inches and a half; weight twenty- 
three ounces: the head is dark brown: from the orbits a whitifh 
brown ftreak, extending backwards, and ending in a large pendent 
creft; the upper part of it brown, the lower black: creater and leffer 
coverts, fcapulars, and tail, black: fecondaries the fame, but each 
web broadly mottled with white: belly white: vent tawny: beyond 
the junction of the thighs with the body, a few black feathers marked 
with red: legs dufky yellow... 
This fpecies arrives at Hudfon’s Bay in May, as foon as the rivers 
are open: makes its neft about the lakes, with grafs, lined with 
feathers pulled from its own breaft: retires when the rivers are 
frozen. 
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