Bot i OG. 
Mye RAGS Au. Beem ls i Ue S. 
5 "ME W. 
ANSERES. 
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. 
we 
‘Bill flender, a little depreffed, furnifhed with a crooked nail; edges 
of the mandibles very fharply ferrated. Noftrils near the middle of 
the mandible, {mall and fubovated. Feet furnifhed with four toes ; 
three forwards, and one behind ; the outer toe before longer than the’ 
middle one. 
SPECIFIG CHARACTER. 
Bill lead colour. General colour of the plumage white. Head 
crefted at the back part; on each fide of the head an oval black {pots 
beginning at the bill, and encircling the eye. On the lower part of 
the neck, on each fide, are two curved black ftreaks, pointing for- 
_ ward. Inner {capulars, back, coverts on the fide of the wing and the 
greater quill feathers, black. Tail cinereous. Legs orey. 
Mercus ALBELLus. Lin. Sy/f. 1. p. 209. 5. 
| Haug, SuccN2 137. 
Brun. N° 97. 
Kram. El, p. 344. 3. 
Frifch. te 172s 
MeErcus 
