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MERGUS SERRATOR. 



Mer. Mas. — Capite cristato, hoc colloque superiore viridibus ; collo inferiore capistro albo. 

 Mer. Fern. — Capite cristato, hoc colloque superiore runs, collo inferiore cinereo; ventre albo; speculoque 

 fascia atra diviso. 



RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 



Male mer. with the head crested, and the upper part of the neck green ; the inferior part with 

 a white collar. 



Fern. mer. with the head crested, together with the upper part of the neck rufous ; the inferior 

 part cinereous ; helow white ; speculum divided hy a black bar. 





IN. 





IN. 





.. 20 



Inner toe . . 



.. 2 



Bill 



■• 2| 





.. 2f 





•• 21 





.. 21 



Male : head and upper part of the neck glossy greenish black, the former crested ; middle of 

 the neck with a white collar; lower part of the neck and breast ferruginous, spotted with black; 

 upper part of the back, scapulars, and sides of the breast black ; wing coverts white, with a black 

 bar across the larger ones ; tail grey ; flanks and lower part of the back white, undulated with 

 narrow black lines ; below white ; irides reddish ; bill orange, with the culmen black. 



Fern. : head and crest brown ; remainder of the neck greyish brown ; secondaries, abdomen, 

 and lower part of the breast white. 



Young similar to the female. 



Mergus serrator Linn. Sys/. 1. 208. 



Gmel. Syst. 1. 511 

 Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 829. 



Mergus serra/or leucomelas Gfmel. Sys/. 1 . 546. 



Mergus eerra '.us Gmcl. Syst. 1 . 546 A. 



— — nig, r Gfmel. Syst. 1 . 546 B. 



crista/ us Briss. Orn. 6. 237. 2. /. 23. 



Red-breasted Merganser Perm. Arc/. Zoo/. 2. 466. 



Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 423. 



Li Harle, J/ v>J ,e Buff. Ois. 8. 273. 



Harle a manteau noir Stiff. Ois. 8. 277. 



Harle, Huppe | Tenon. Man. Orn. 2. p. 884. 



Trachea Linn. Trans, vol. 1, tab. 16, fig. 1 — 2. 



Inhabits nearly the same countries as the preceding; but docs not extend so far southwards ; breeds 

 in the neighbourhood of the arctic circle and in the highlands of Scotland, on the borders of fresh 

 water lakes, making its nest of dried herbage lined with down stripped from itsownbodj , laya 

 from eight to twelve eggs of a brownish yellow colour. 



