S 6o RED HEADED SMEW. Class II. 



the head is adorned with a long creft, white above, 

 black beneath : from a little beyond the eye to the 

 bill, is a large oval black fpot, gloffed with green; 

 the head, neck, and whole under fide of the body 

 are of a pure white; on the lower part of the neck 

 are two femilunar black lines pointing forward : the 

 inner fcapulars, the back, the coverts on the ridge 

 of the wing, and the greater quil-feathers are black ; 

 the middle rows of coverts are white ; the next 

 black, tipt with white •, the leifer quil feathers the 

 fame ; the fcapulars next the wings white : the tail 

 deep afh color : the legs a bluifli grey. 



The female, or lough diver, is lefs than the 

 male. The marks in the wings are the fame in 

 both fexes : the back, the fcapulars, and the tail 

 are dulky : the head, and hind part of the neck 

 ferruginous : chin, and fore part of the neck white : 

 the breafl clouded with grey : the belly white ; 

 the legs dufky. 



263. Red The Weefel Coot. Aid. av. Faun. Suec. fp. 138. 



headed. I- p- 84. Tab. 88. L' Harle etoile. Brijfin av. 



Mergus minutus. t,in, fyft. VI. 252. 



209. Br. Zool. 148. 



Descrip. rT"*HIS bird weighs fifteen ounces : the length 



-*• is one foot four inches -, the breadth one foot 



eleven inches : the bill is of a lead color : the head 



is 



