HEEGUS CUCULLATUS. 



(HOODED MERGANSER.) 



L'Harle hupe de Virginie, Briss. Orn. vi. p. 258 (1760). 



Mergns ciicullatus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 207 (1766). 



Merganser cucullatus (Linn.), Bonn. Encycl. Meth. i. p. 103 (1790). 



Lophodytes cucullatus (Linn.), Reichenb. Syst. Av. p. ix (1852). 



Mergus [Lophodytes) cucullatus (Linn.), Coues, Key N.-Am. B. 2nd ed. p. 718. no. 745 (1884). 



Figurce notabiles. 



Edwards, Gleanings, pi. 360. fig. 3; DAubent. PI. Enl. 935, 936; Wils. Am. Orn. viii. 

 pi. lxix. fig. 1; Audub. Orn. Biogr. iii. pi. ccxxxiii.; id. B. of Am. vi. pi. ccccxiii.; 

 Gould, B. of G. Brit. v. pi. xxxvi. 



tJ ad. fronte saturate fusca : capite valde cristato : crista medialiter alba et nigro marginata : corpore supra 

 et cauda, nigro-fuscis : remigibus fuscis, secundariis in pogonio externo albis, speculum album 

 formantibus, speculo fasciis duabus nigris notato : tectricibus alarum majoribus nigris albo apicatis, 

 medianis griseis, minoribus nigro-fuscis : collo nigro : corpore subtus albo : regione antepectorale 

 utrinque duabus fasciis lunatis notato : hypochondriis rufescenti-fuscis, nigro-fusco vermiculatis : 

 subcaudalibus cinereo-albis, rufescenti-fusco et saturate fusco marmoratis : rostro nigro : pedibus 

 flavo-fuscis : iride flava,. 



? ad. capite, collo et pectore fuscis, mento et gula pallidioribus: crista rufescenti-fusca, plumis versus apicem 

 inconspicue pallidioribus : corpore supra saturate fusco : alis et cauda, fuscis : speculum in alis album 

 fasciis duabus nigris notatum : pectore et abdomine albis, hypochondriis fuscis plumis pallidiore 

 marginatis. 



Adult Male (Calais, Maine). Forehead dark brown; head furnished with a compressed semicircular crest, 

 which is white in the centre, broadly margined with black, excepting on the posterior portion, where the 

 margin is narrow ; scapulars deep black, the rest of the upper parts brownish black ; quills brown, the 

 secondaries white on the outer web, forming a speculum, which is crossed by two black bands ; larger 

 wing-coverts black, tipped with white, the median coverts grey, and lesser ones blackish brown; tail 

 brown ; upper parts of the neck black, the lower neck in front and rest of the underparts white ; on 

 each side of the neck two black crescentic bands; flanks reddish brown, finely vermiculated with 

 blackish brown ; under tail-coverts greyish white, finely freckled and waved with reddish brown and 

 dark brown : bill black; feet and legs yellowish brown ; iris yellow. Total length about 17 inches, 

 culmen V7, wing 7 - 4, tail 3 - 8, tarsus 1'25. 



Adult Female (Calais, Maine). Head, neck, and breast brown, lighter on the chin and throat, the feathers 

 on the breast with paler margins ; crest reddish brown, becoming much paler towards the tips of the 

 feathers ; upper parts darker brown ; wings and tail brown, the former having the speculum as in the 

 male ; underparts below the breast white ; the flanks brown, with pale margins to the feathers; maxilla 

 black, edged with orange : mandible orange ; feet dusky ; iris hazel. 



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