RED BREASTED MERGANSER. Class II. 



'ESCRIP. 



Anas Longiroftra. Qefner a<v. Sraun kopfiger Tilger, 

 135. Aldr. a-\ HI. 113. Taucher. Kratn. 343. 



The Serula. WiU orn, 336. Mergus ferrator. Li?:. Jyft. 



Raiijyn. a<v. 135. 20S. 



Lefler toothed Diver. Mor- Pracka. Faun. Suec. fp. 136. 



ton's Northampt. 429. . Danis Fiik-And. Brun?iich 5 



L' Harle hupe. Brijfcn av. g6. 



VI. 23*7. Br. Z00L 147. 



THIS ipecies weighs two pounds ; the length 

 is one foot nine inches ; the breadth two feet 

 feven : the bill is three inches long ; the lower man- 

 dible red ; the upper dufky : the irides a purplifh 

 red : head and throat a fine changeable black and 

 green : on the firft a long pendent creft of the 

 fame color : upper part of the neck, of the breaft, 

 and the whole belly white : lower part of the breaft 

 ferruginous, fpotted with black : upper part of the 

 back black : near the letting on of the wings fome 

 white feathers, edged and tipt with black : the 

 exterior fcapulars black ; the interior white : lawer 

 part of the back, the coverts of the tail, and fea- 

 thers on the fides under the wings and over the 

 thighs grey, elegantly marked with ziczag lines of 

 black : coverts on the ridge of the wings dufky ; 

 then fucceeds a broad bar cf white : the greater 

 coverts half black, half white : the fecondaries next 

 the quil feathers marked in the fame manner \ the 

 reft white, edged on one fide with black : the quil 



feathers 



