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SMEW MERGANSER. 



Class II. 



3. Smew. Mergus albellus. M. crista de- 

 pendente, occipite nigro, 

 corpore albo, dorso tempori- 

 busque nigris, alls variegatis. 

 (Mas.) Lath. hid. orn. S3 1 . 

 id. Syn. vi. 428. id. Sup. i. 

 ZTl.id. Sup.u.23%.id.Lin. 

 Tr.'iv. 124.tah.l6.f.3. 4. 



jMergus albellus. M. capite 

 Isevi griseo, fascia oculari 

 nigra, macula suboculari 

 alba. (Femina.) Lath. Ind. 

 orn. 831. id. Sup. ii. 338. 



LaPiette. Belonav. 17 1. 



Mergus rhenanus. Gesner av. 

 131. 



Aldr. av. iii. 111. 



White Nun. JFil. orn. 337. 



Lough Diver. 338. 



Rail Syn. av. 135. 



Mergus albellus. Gm. Lin-di"/, 



Faun. Suec. sp. 137- 



Le petit harle hupe ou le Piette. 



Brisson av. vi. 243. Tah. 24. 



Jig. 1. & 2. Hist, d'ois. viii. 



275. PI. Enl. 449. 4jO. 

 Kram. 344. 

 Kreutz-Ente (Cross-Duck) 



Frisch, ii. I72. 

 Cimlris Hviid Side. Brunnich, 



Scopoli, No. 89. 

 Br. Zool. 148. Tal. N. 1. N. 

 2. Arct. Zool. ii. 201. 



Descrip- xTS weight is thirty-four ounces ; the length 



TION. 



eighteen inches ; the breadth twenty-six. The 

 bill is nearly two inches long, and of a lead co- 

 lor; the head is adorned with a long crest, 

 white above, black beneath; from a little be- 

 yond the eye to the bill, is a large oval black 

 spot, glossed with green ; the head, neck, and 

 whole under side of the body are of a pure 

 white; on the lower part of the neck are two 

 semilunar black lines pointing forward; the 

 inner scapulars, the back, the coverts on the 

 ridge of the wing, and the greater quil feathers 

 are black ; the middle rows of the coverts are 



