PLATE XXXVIII. 



Mergus serratoR. Crifta dependente, capite nigro maculis ferru- 



gineis. Faun. Suec, — Linn, Syft. Nat. 

 Georgi Reife. p. 169. — Mutter^ N° 134* 

 Mergus albellus. Scop. Ann. I. N° 89. 

 Anas Longiroftra. Gefn. av. 133. Aldr. av, 3. 113. 

 Mergus criftatus capite caftaneo, &c. Kram. EI. p. 343. 2. (female.) 

 ■ cirratus fufcus. Rati Syn, p. 135. A. 4. Will. Orn. p. 336. 



(Mergus cirratus minor.) pi. 64. (female.) 

 Red-breasted Goosander. Edw, pL 95. 



Alb in, 2. pi. 1 01. 

 Red-breasted Merganser. Penn, Br. Zoo'L 2. 261, 



Lath. Gen. Syn. 6. 423. 3. 

 Lesser Toothed Diver. Mortons Northampton^ 429. 

 L'Harle hupe. Br if, av. 6. 237. 



Buff. Oif. 8. p. 273. pi. enl, 207. 

 Braun kopfiger Tilger. 

 Taucher. Kram. 343. 

 Pracka. Faun. Suec, fp. 136. 



Length twenty-one inches, breadth thirty-three inches, weight two 

 pounds. We have reprefented the male, the female has only the ru- 

 diment of a crefr. : the head and upper part of the neck, dull ferrugi- 

 nous : chin white : fore part of the neck and the breaft ferruginou?, 

 mottled with black and white : upper part of the neck, back, rump, 

 and fcapulars, cinerous : the lower part of the breaft and belly white. 



Both male and female are very liable to variation in the colour of 



their plumage; in fome the white fpace on the neck is much moie 



cWufed than in ethers 5 the fame has been obferved of the portion of 



1 white 



