Class II. S M E W. 



feathers dufky. Tail fliort and brown : legs orange 

 colored. 



The head and upper part of the neck of the 

 female of a deep ruft color : the creft fhort : throat 

 white : fore part of the neck and bread marbled 

 with deep afh color : belly white : great quil-fea- 

 thers dufky : lower half of the neareft fecondaries 

 black; the upper white; the reft dufky: back, 

 fcapulars, and tail afh colored. The upper half 

 of the firft fecondary feathers white ; the lower 

 half black : the others dufky. 



Thefe birds breed in the northern parts of Great 

 Britain ; we have feen them and their young on 

 Loch Mart in the county of Rofs, and in the ifle of 

 Hay. 



559 



La Piette. Belcn a-v. 171. 

 Mergus rhenanus. Gefner av, 



Aldr av. III. in. 



White Nun. Wil. crn. 337. 



Lough Diver. 338. 



Rati fyn. av. 135. 



Mergus albellus. Lin. fyfi. 



209. 

 Faun. Suec. fp. 137. 



LepetitharlehupeouIePiette. 262. Smew, 



Brififon a<v. VI. 243. Tab. 



24. fig. 1. & 2. 

 Kram. 344. 

 Kreutz-Ente (Crofs-Duck) 



Frifcb, II. 172. 

 Cimbris Hviid Side. Brunnich^ 



97- 

 Br. Zcol. 148. Scopoli, No. 89, 



I 



TS weight is thirty-four ounces : the length 

 eighteen inches; the breadth twenty-fix. The 

 bill is near two inches long, and of a lead color : 



the 



Descrip. 



