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RED BREASTED MERGANSER. Ctass II. 
under the title of Breure oyseau, and asserts, 
_ that it builds its nest on rocks and in trees like 
2. RED 
BREASTED. 
DEScRIP= 
TION. 
the Corvorant. 
Mereus serrator. M. crista de- ton’'s Northampt. 429. 
pendente, pectore rufescente L'Harle hupé. Brisson av. vi. 
variegato, collari albo, rec- 937) Hist. @ois. ‘iii. 273. 
tricibus fuscis cinereo varie- PLPnk 2072 se 
gatis. Lath. Ind. orn. 829. Braun kopfiger Tilger, Tau- 
id. Syn. vi. 423. ad. Sup. ii. cher. Kram. 343. 
337: id. Lin. Ty. iv. 121... Mergus serrator, Gm. Lin. oa 
tab. 16. f. 1.2. 546. 
Anas Longirostra. Gesner av. Pracka. Faun. Suect sp. 136. 
133. Aldr. av. iii. 113. Danis Fisk-And. Brunnich, 
The Serula. 71. orn. 336. 96. 
Raii Syn. av. 135. Br. Zool. 147. Arct.Zool. ii. 
Lesser toothed Diver. Mor- 258. 
Tuts species weighs two pounds; the length 
is one foot nine inches; the breadth two feet 
seven. ‘The bill is three inches long, the lower » 
mandible red, the upper dusky; the irides a 
purplish red; the head and throat a fine change- 
able black and green; on the first isa long pen-» 
dent crest of the same color; the upper part of the 
neck, of the breast, andthe whole belly white ; 5 
the lower part of the breast ferruginous, spotted 
at 
Bi gt 
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with black; the upper part of the back black ; : 
near the setting on of the wings are some white | 
feathers, edged and tipt with black; the oxteas : 

