4i6 MERGANSER. 



_ T 3- L'Harle noir, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 251. 5. 



Var. B. 



Description. QIZEofaDa^. Bill black: head, back and rump, fcapu- 

 lars, and upper tail coverts, black : neck chefnut : breaft, 

 belly, and under parts, white : wings black, crofted with a tranf- 

 verfe band of white : tail black: legs black. 

 Place. Found in Germany. This feems a variety of the female. 



HOODED M. Mergus cucullatus, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 207. 1. 



L'Harle hupe de Virginie, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 258. S.—Pl.Enl. 935 (the 



male) ; 936 (the female.) 

 L'Harle couronne, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 280. 

 Ecatototl altera, Rati Syn. p. 175. 

 Wind Bird, Will. Orn. p. 389. 



Round-crefted Duck, Ednx>. pi. 360. — Catejb. Car. i. pi. 94. 

 Hooded Merganfer, Aril. Zool. N° 467. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. CIZE nearly that of a TVigeon : length feventeen inches and a 

 half: breadtli twenty-three inches: weight nearly twenty-three 

 ounces. Bill an inch and a half long, black, furnifhed with a 

 nail at the end : hides golden : head of a dark brown : fore- 

 head paler : the head furnifhed with a large rounded crelr, 

 flat on the fides : round the eyes, and the middle of the creft, 

 black; the reft white, tipped all round with black: the head, 

 neck, back, and quills, black : tail dufky : the under parts 

 from the breaft white : fides of the breaft, and lower part of 

 the neck, undulated with black : the wing coverts are deep 

 brown ; acrofs the lower ones a bar of white ; and a mixture of 

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