4ao MERGANSER, 



2. Mergus Merganfer (fem.) Faun. Suec. p. 48. 



•DUN-DIVER. Mergus Gulo, Scop. Ann. i. N° 88. 



Anas rubricapilla, Brun. N° 93. 



Mergus Merganfer, (fem.) Faun. Suec. p. 4S. — Kram. El. p. 343. N° Z. 

 Mergus caftor, Lin.Syft. i. p. 209. 4? 



L'Harle cendre, ou le Bievre, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 254. pi. 25. 

 L'Harle femelle, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 236. — Buf, Oif. viii. p. 272.— PL 



Enl. 953. 

 Dun-Diver, or Sparling Fowl, Rail Syn. p. 134. A. 2. — Will. Orn. p. 333. 

 pi. 64. (the head.) — Albin, i. pi. 87. — Br. Zcel. ii. p. 557. pi. 92. 

 fig. z.—Ara. Zool. 1^465. 



Br. M«f. Lev. Maf. 



Description. THE Bun - Diver is lefs than the Goofander, and meafures 

 in length twenty-feven .inches : is thirty-five in breadth : 

 and weighs three pounds and a half. The bill is much the 

 fame., but duller in colour ; the nail at the tip blackifli : the up- 

 per part of the head and neck are ferruginous, paleft on the fore 

 part : the feathers of the crown and nape much longer than in 

 the Goofander : the chin and throat white : the back, wing co- 

 verts, tail, and fides of the body, are afh-colour : the lower part 

 of the neck before, the breaft, and middle of the belly, are white: 

 greater quills black : fcapulars darker than the back : the ends 

 of fix of the fecondaries white for two inches, but the laft of 

 thefe has the inner web, and the remaining part of the others, 

 wholly of a pale afh-colour: legs orange, but paler than in the 

 Goofander. 

 Place. The above is moftly found in the fame place, and at the fame 



feafons, as the Goofander ; but appears to be far more common. 



THE 



