ANA TID2E — MEEGIN2E : MEBCJ-ANSEIiS. 



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mediate secondaries wliite, inner secondaries and scapulars black and white. 9 : liiU red with 

 dusky cnlmen, iris yellowish, feet chrome or f.range Ai-itli dusky webs, crest better devidoped than 

 in $ ; still flimsy, however long. Head and neck reddish-brown ; throat white ; under parts 

 less salmon-tinted. Black parts of $ ashy-gray ; scapulars without white ; white of wing 

 restricted to secondaries and greater coverts, which are black at base ; snuiller coverts ashy. 

 Length 2.3..50-37.00 ; extent 34.00 or more; wing 10.00-11.00; tail .5.00; bill 2.00 along 

 cuhnen, 3.00 iilong gape ; tarsus 1.75 ; middle t(je and claw 2.75 ; ? much smaller than $, at 

 the lesser or below the single dimensions here given. N. Am. bird said to difl:er in slighter and 

 lower crest, and evident black bar in white of wing, concealed in European. N. Am. at large, 

 common ; U. S. in winter, and breeding from N. States northward. Nest on ground, down- 

 Uued; eggs 6-8, elhptical, buff-c(dored, 2.75 X 2.00. 





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Fig. 499. — Merganser, (f , I nat. size. {From Brehm. } 



744. M. serra'tor. (Lat. serrator, a sawyer. Fig. 500.) Eed-breasted Mekgan.see. Nostrils 

 near base of bill. Frontal feathers extending obtusely on culmen, and not beyond those on 

 sides of upper mandible ; the loral SAvecping forward convex beyond those on side of lower 

 mandible. A long, thin, pointed occipital and nuchal crest in both sexes. Adult <J : 

 Head and neck all around splendid dark green. A white ring n.iund neck. Under parts 

 white, more or less salmon-tinged, the fore-breast brownish-red streaked with dusky, the 

 sides finely waved with dusky. A white black -bordered patch of broad feathers in front of 

 the wing. Fore-back, interscapulars, and long inner scapulars, black ; middle and lower back 

 gray, waved with whitish and dusky. Surface of wing mostly white, including outer scap- 

 ulars ; inner secondaries edged on outer web with black, and wing crossed by two black bars 

 at bases and just beyond ends of greater coverts. Rill carmine-red, dusky along the top; 

 eyes carmine ; feet bright red. 9 • BiR and feet duller colored ; head grayish-chestnut ; 



