206 MERGANSER. 



B.— Merganser niger, Bris. vi. 251. Id. 8vo. ii. 427. Ind. Orn. ii. 830. y. Gen. Syn. 



vi. 426. Var. B. 

 Der Schwarz Meerachen, Bechst. Deuts. ii. 737. 3. 



Bill black; head, back, and rump, scapulars, and upper tail 

 coverts, black; neck chestnut; breast, belly, and under parts, white; 

 wings black, crossed with a band of white ; tail and legs black. 



Found in Germany, and is probably a Variety of the female. 



4 —HOODED MERGANSER.— Pl. clxxvii. 



Mergus cueullatus, Ind. Orn. ii. 830. Lin. i. 207. Gm. Lin. i. 544. Barlr.Trav. 



293. Am. Orn. viii. 79. pl. 69. f. 1. Frankl. Nar. Ap. p. 702. 

 Merganser Virginianus cristatus, Bris. vi. 258. Id. 8vo. ii. 429. 

 Serrator cueullatus, Klein, Av. 140. 



Eeatototl, Raii, 175. Will. 301. Id. Engl. 389— Wind Bird. 

 Le Harle couronne, Buf. viii. 2S0. Pl. enl. 935, 936. 

 Round-crested Duck, Cat. Car. i. pl. 94. Edw. pl. 360. 

 Hooded Merganser, Gen. Syn. vi. 426. 4. pl. CI. Arct. Zool. ii. No. 467. 



LENGTH eighteen inches, breadth twenty-four ; weight twenty- 

 three ounces. Bill one inch and a half long, black, irides golden ; 

 head dark brown ; forehead paler ; the head furnished with a large 

 rounded crest, flat on the sides, of a very soft and silky texture ; 

 round the eyes, and the middle of the crest black ; the rest white, 

 tipped all round with black ; forehead, cheeks, neck, back, and tail, 

 black, the last inclined to dusky ; under parts from the breast white ; 

 sides of the latter and lower part of the neck undulated with black ; 

 wing coverts deep brown ; across the lower a bar of white ; and on 

 the scapulars a mixture of white ; sides of the breast fine tawny, 

 crossed with black lines ; of the vent the same, elegantly barred ; 

 legs black. This is the description of the male. The female differs 

 so very little as not to merit a separate description. 



