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NORTHERN ZOOLOGY. 



towards the shafts of the tail and its coverts to clove-brown. Sides of the rump white, undu- 

 lated with blackish-brown. Bill vermilion-red on the sides, black above and below. Legs 

 vermilion. 



Form. — Bill armed with acute conical teeth pointing backwards : two acute serrated 

 ridges on the palate. Nuchal crest short, not pendant, resembling the surrounding plumage. 

 Wings three inches shorter than the tail. 



Female. — Top of the head and crest of long slender feathers, mostly occipital, liver-brown ; 

 sides of the head and upper half of the neck ferruginous. Upper plumage clove-brown, with 

 greyish edges. No white on the scapulars or lesser coverts ; but the speculum nearly as in 

 the male. Under plumage white ; the fore part of the neck and flanks yellowish-grey, edged 

 with white. 









Dimensions. 













Male. 



Female. 







Male. 



Female. 





Inch. Lin. 



Inch. 



Lin. 







Inch. 



Lin. 



Inch. Lin, 



ingth, total 



. 31 



25 







Length 



of bill to rictus 



. 3 



2 



3 



,, of tail 



6 



3 



3 



?? 



from nostrils to tip . 



. 1 



6 



1 6 



„ of wing 



. 11 



9 







93 



of tarsus 



2 







1 9 



„ of bill above 



2 4 



2 



1 



■>•> 



of middle toe 



2 



6 



2 2 



„ of bill to frontal angles 



. 2 10 







it 



of middle nail 



. 



4* 



3\ 



— R. 



The males vary four inches and more in length. 



[221.] 2. Mergus serrator. (Linn.) 



Red-breasted Merganser. 



Sub-family, Merganinje, Sw. Genus, Mergus, Linn. 



Red-breasted Goosander. Edw., pi. 95. 



Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator). Penn. Arct. Zool., ii., p. 537, No. 466. 



Wils., viii., p. 91, pi. 69, f. 2, male. 

 Mergus serrator. Sab., FranM.Joum., p. 702. Bonap. Syn., p. 497, No. 348. 

 Kanwan-seek. Saulteur Indians. 



DESCRIPTION 



Of a male, killed on the Saskatchewan. 



Colour. — Head, crest, adjoining half of the neck, medial line above to the back, fore part 

 of the back, the shoulders, scapulars, lesser coverts bordering the wing, twelve exterior quills, 

 tertiary coverts, posterior tertiaries, basal halves of the secondaries and of their coverts, 

 with the narrow borders of the tertiaries, black ; the sides of the head and the nape deeply 

 glossed with duck-green. A broad neck collar, the wide centres of a tuft of black feathers on 

 the shoulders, exterior scapular coverts, intermediate wing coverts, distal halves of the greater 

 coverts and of the secondaries, the tertiaries, and the under plumage, pure white. Rump 

 and tail coverts blackish-brown, minutely undulated with white ; flanks more regularly and 

 distinctly undulated with the same. Tail broccoli-brown. Breast and sides of the neck 

 posteriorly brown, approaching to buff, striped on the margins and fringed on the tips with 

 black. Bill orange on the sides and beneath : dark above. Feet brownish-orange. 



