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MERGUS SERRATOR, 

 RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 



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Bill obtufe, covered with a thin membrane, broad, gibbous below 

 the bafe, fwelled at the apex. Tongue flefhy. Legs naked; feet 

 webbed, or finned. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 

 Bill long, roundifh, ferrated, hooked at the apex *. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER, 



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Irides red. Head and upper part of the neck black, crefted ; lower 

 part white. Bread: brown, mottled. Belly white. Back black, 

 Wings, exterior fcapulars black ; interior white. 



* Noftrils near the middle of the mandible, fmall, and fubovated. Feet furnifhed 

 with four toes, three forwards, and one behind j the outer toe before longer than the 

 middle one. Lath. Gen. Syn, 



Mergus 



