MERGUS SERRATOR. 
RED-BREASTED MERGANSER, 
Generic Character. See Mergus Merganser. 
Mergus serrator ; crista dependente, pectore rufes- 
cente variegato^ collari albo^ rectricibus 
fuscis cinereo variegatis. 
Red-breasted Merganser. Crest pendent^ breast va- 
riegated with pale rufous ; colar white ; 
tail feathers brown, variegated with ash 
colour. 
Mergus serrator. Lin. Sj/st. v. I. p. 208. GmeL 
l^st. V. 2. p. 546. Ind, Om. v. 2. p. 829. 
Lin. Traits, v. 4. p. J 21. tab. 16. /. 1. 2. 
Mergus cirrhatus fuscus. Raii Sijn. p. 135. 
Le Harle huppe. Ruff. Hist. d'Ois. v. 8. p. 273. 
Temm. Man. d'Orn. cd.2. p. 884. 
Red-breasted Merganser. Br. ZooL 8vo. ed. v. 2. 
p. 214. pi. 38. Arct. ZooL v. 2. p. 466. 
Lath. Syn. v. 6. p. 423. lb. Sup. 2. 
p. 337. Lewin Br. Mrds, v. 6. t. 233. 
Don. Br. Birds, v. 2. t. 38. Mont. Orn. 
Diet. lb. Sup. Bewick's Br. Birds, pt. 2. 
p. 235. 
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J- HIS rare species weighs about two pounds, is twenty-one 
inches in length, and about thirty-two in breadth. Bill 
three inches long, nearly round, slender, and finely toothed 
on the edges; irides red ; tail consisting of twenty feathers. 
The female is about twenty inches in length, nearly thirty 
in breadth, and weighs twenty-five ounces. The bill is more 
slender, the teeth more distant and finer than in the other 
sex ; irides bright red ; feet orange red. 
The Red-breasted Merganser is subject to consider- 
able variety of colour in different specimens, and at different 
