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3. SMEW. 
DEscRIP- 
TION. 
SMEW MERGANSER. 
Mergus albellus. M. crista de- 
pendente, occipite nigro, 
corpore albo, dorso tempori- 
busque nigris, alis variegatis. 
(Mas.) Lath. Ind. orn. 831. 
id. Syn. vi. 428. 2d. Sup. i. 
271.id. Sup. 1.338. id. Lin. 
Tr. iv. 194. tab. 16. f.3. 4. 
Mergus albellus. M. capite 
levi griseo, fascia oculari 
nigra, macula suboculari 
alba. (Femina.) Lath. Ind. 
orn. 831. id. Sup. ii. 338. 
La Piette.- Belon av. 171. 
Mergus rhenanus. Gesner av. 
131. 
Cuiass II. 
White Nun. Wil. orn. 337. 
Lough Diver. 338. 
ian Syn. av. 135. 
Mergusalbellus. Gm. Lin. 547. 
Faun. Suec. sp. 137. 
Le petit harle hupé ou le Piette. 
Brisson av. vi. 243. Tab. 24. 
Jig. 1. & 2. Hist. dois. viii. 
275. Pl. Enl. 449. 450. 
Kram. 344. 
Kreutz-Ente — (Cross-Duck) 
Frisch, “ii. 172. 
Cimbris Hyiid Side. Brunnich, 
97. 
Scopoli, No. 89. : 
Br. Zool. 148. Tab. N. 1. N. 
Aldr. av. iii. 111. 2. Arct. Zool. ii. 261. 
Its weight is thirty-four ounces; the length 
eighteen inches; the breadth twenty-six. The 
bill is nearly two inches long, and of a lead co- 
lor; the head is adorned with a long crest, 
white above, black beneath; from a little be- 
yond the eye to the bill, is a large oval black 
spot, glossed with green; the head, neck, and 
whole under side of the body are of a pure 
white; on the lower part of the neck are two 
semilunar black lines pointing forward; the 
inner scapulars, the back, the coverts on the 
ridge of the wing, and the greater quil feathers 
are black; the middle rows of the coverts are 
