Fig. 78. Baby Red-breasted Mergansers {Merganser serrator). 

 Water-shine-aud-shadow patterns, etc. 



Photographed from life Iit Cherry and Richard Kearton. 



Courtesy also of Cassell & Co. 



Fig. 79. Sketch suggested by the young mergansers in Fig. 78 to 

 show how closely they represent a little wet spot in a swamp. 



