PLATE LII. 



MERGUS MINUTUS. 



RED-HEADED MERGANSER. 



Anseres. 



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

 the bafe, fwelled at the apex. Tongue flelhy. Legs naked, feet 

 webbed or finned. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill convex above, flat beneath, hooked at the apex, with mem- 

 branous teeth. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNO NTMS. 



Biil lead colour. Head red brown, with a fmall creft. Cheeks* 

 throat, and belly white. Back and tail mottled, dufky and white. 

 Wings dufky, with a patch of white on the coverts, and two bars 

 of the fame below. Legs dufky. 



Mergus Minutus: capite grifeo kevi. Fn. Suec.—Lttm. Syjl. 



Nat. i. p. 129. 5, 

 Mergus tinus, Hafelq. It, p. 269. N°. 37. 



« glacial is, Brunnich, N°. 99. 



11 pannonicus. Scop. Ann. 1. p. 392. 



The Wezel Coot. Albin. orn. i.p. 84. /. 88. 

 LoupH Diver. Rail Syn. p. i^—Will om. p. 338. 



Minute 



