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feathers of the hind head forming a pretty long creft; the reft of 

 the neck, and the under part of the body, white : the breaft fer- 

 ruginous, mixed with black and white : upper part of the 

 back gloiTy black : the lower, and rump, tranfverfely ftriated 

 brown and pale grey : on each fide of the breaft are five or fix 

 broad white feathers, margined all round with black, and when 

 the wing is clofed reft on the bend of it : part of the fcapulars 

 are black, others white : the wing coverts are alfo part black 

 part white; butmoftofthem of this laft colour: quills dufky : 

 tail brown : legs orange : claws black. 



Female. The female differs in having only the rudiment of a creft : the 



head, and upper part of the neck adjoining, dull ferruginous : 

 chin white : fore part of the neck, and the breaft, ferruginous, 

 mottled with black and white : the upper part of the neck, back, 

 rump, and fcapulars, cinereous : the lower part of the breaft and 

 belly white: on each fide the breaft the fame black and white 

 feathers as in the male: fcapulars and wing coverts much the 

 fame as' in that fex ; but have lefs white and more dufky in them : 

 legs orange, but paler than in the male. 



Individuals of both male and female differ from each other in 

 plumage. In the firft, fome have twice the proportion of white 

 in the neck that is feen in others; and the white on the wings 

 infinitely more pure. The females differ alfo in being much 

 brighter in colour. 



Place and This fpecies is found for the moft part in the northern parts of 



this kingdom. Obferved to breed on Loch Mari, in the county 

 of Rofs, and in the IJle of Hay *. In moft parts of the north of 

 Europey on the continent: and as high as Iceland, where it is called 



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