MERGANSER. 203 



black, brown, and grey, no speculum on the wings ; prime quills 

 black ; legs rufous white. — Inhabits Sardinia. The above is all we 

 can collect concerning the bird. 



3— RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 



Mergus Serrator, Ind. Orn. ii. 829. Lin. i. 208. Fn. suec. No. 130. Gin. Lin. i. 540. 



It.Got.166. 271. It. Oel. 271. Bor. iii. p. 22. 2. Mull. No. 134. Georgi, 109. 



Faun, groenl. No. 48. Fn. Helv. Sepp, iii. t. 124, 125. Gerin. v. t. 500. Tern. 



Man. 579. Id. Ed. 2d. 884. 

 Merganser longiroster cristatus, Gerin. v. t. 509. 



cristatus, Bris. vi. 237. t. 23. Jd. 8vo. ii. 424. 



Mergus cristatus, Brun. No. 94, 95. Bechst. Deuts. ii. 737. 2. /rf. Ed. 2d. iv. 795. 

 Serrator cirrhatus, Klein, 140. 2. /d. Stent. 33. t. 37. 1. a — c. Robert. Ic. pi. 23. 

 Mergus pectore rufo, Bartr. Trav. 293. Besch. Berl. Nat. i. 170. Id. ii. 551. 



albellus, Scop. i. No. 89. 



cirrhatus fuscus, Raii, 135. A. 4. JF?7/. 255. t. 64. Id. Engl. 336. t. 64. 



Der Meerracken, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 732. t. 24. Id. Var. 736. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. 795. 

 Der Haubentaucher, Schr. d. Berl. Nat. iii. 374. t. 7. f. 5. 



Der Langschnabel, Naturf. xii. 139. 



Le Harle huppe, Buf. viii. 273. PL en/. 207. 



Red-breasted Merganser, Gen. Syn. vi. 423. Id. Sup. 271. Ttf. Sup. ii. 337. Br. 



Zoo/, ii. No. 261. pi. 93. Id.fol. 147, /</. 1812. ii. p. 214. pi. 38. Arct. Zool. 



ii. No. 466. JEdtr. pi. 95. Albin, ii. pi. 101. Bew. ii. pi. p. 261. Lewin, vi. 



pi. 233. Lin. Trans, iv. 121. pi. xvi. f. 1, 2. Id. viii. 268. IValc. pi. 81. Don. 



pi. 38. Pztfr. Dor*, p. 18. Am. Orn. viii. 81. pi. 69. f. 2. O™. Diet. # Supp. 



Frankl. Nar. Ap. p. 702. 



LENGTH one foot nine inches, breadth two feet seven inches; 

 weight two pounds. Bill nearly three inches long, the upper man- 

 dible dusky, the lower red ; head and part of the neck black, 

 glossed with green, the feathers of the first elongated, forming a 

 long crest ; the rest of the neck and under parts of the body white ; 

 upper part of the back glossy black; the lower and rump trans- 

 versely striated brown and pale grey; on each side of the breast five 

 or six broad white feathers, margined all round with black, and when 

 the wing is closed, rest on the bend of it; part of the scapulars black, 

 others white ; wing coverts also part black part white, but the 



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