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similar to that of cats, appears to serve them best in the dark. Many 
of the duck tribe are not only wakeful, hut feed during the night ; so 
also do the night-jars. The nightingale, and a few other song-birds, 
are also wakeful while in song, during, at least, some portion of the 
night. 
SMALL BROWN GULL.— A name for the Tern. 
SMALL GREY GOOSE. — A name for the Bean Goose. 
SMEW {Mergus albellus, Linnzeus.) 
ADULT MALE. 
IMergus albellus, Gmel, Syst. 1. p. 547. 5. — Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. p, 831. 6 — Wils. 
Amer. Orn. 8. p. 126. pi. 91. 4. — Le Petit Harle Huppe ou la Fiette, Buff. Ois. 
8. p. 275. — Ib. PL Enl. 449. — Smew, or White Nun, Lath. Syn. 6. p. 428. — 
Ih. Siipp. 1. p. 271 Perm. Br. Zool. t. No. 1. — Weisser sager, Pec/jAt. Naturg. 
Dent. 4. p. 804. — Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 2. p. 571. — Frisch. Vbg. t. 172. — 
Naum. Vbg. t. 63. f. 97. — Mergo oco minore, Star. degl. ucc. 5. t. 513 — Witte 
non druker, Sepp. Vbg. Neder. 4. t. p. 363. — Fiem. Br. Anim. p. 129. — Temm. 
Man. d’Orn'. 2. p. 888. — Mont. Orn. Diet. 
FEMALE, AND YOUNG. 
Mergus minutus, Linn. Syst. 12. p. 209. sp. 6. — Fauna Suec. p. 138. — Lath. Ind. 
Orn. 2. p. 882. sp. 7 — Mergus Asiaticus, Gmel. Syst. 2. p. 188. 20. — Mergus 
Stellatus, Brun. Orn. Boreal. No. 98. — Briss. Orn. 6. 252. — Mergus Pannoni- 
cus, Scopoli, 1. No. 92. — LaPiette Femelle, Bujf. Ois. pi. Enl. 430. — Le harle 
etoile, Buff. Ois. 8. p. 278. — Minute Merganser, Mont. Orn. Diet. — Lath. Syn. 
6. p. 429. — Red-headed Smew, Penn. Br. Zool. 148. t. N, 2. — Naum. Vbg. 
Deut. 63. f. 68. — Merge oco minore, Stor. degl. ucc. 5. p. 514. — De Kleine 
Taagbee, Sepp. Nederl. Vbg. 4. t. p. 296. — Mont. Orn. Diet Smew or Smu, 
Bewick’s Br. Birds, 2. p. 264. — Red-headed Ditto. Ih. 2. p. 266. — Lough Plover, 
2. p. 268. — Smew, Linn. Trans. 4. p. 234. t. 16. L 3. (Trachea.) — Lewin’s Br. 
Birds, 6. t. 234. — Pult. Cat. Dorset, p. 19. — Wale. Syn. 1. t. 82. 
PTovincial . — White Nun. Vare Widgeon. Smee. 
This species rather exceeds the teal in size ; length about seven- 
teen inches ; weight twenty-four ounces ; hill near two inches long*, 
and black. The head, neck, and whole under parts of the body 
pure white ; on each side the head an oval black spot, glossed with 
green ; the feathers on the back of the head are long, forming a pendant 
crest, black underneath ; on each side the lower part of the neck is a 
curved black streak, pointing forwards ; the inner scapulars black ; 
coverts on the sides of the wings and greater quills are black ; the 
middle coverts white ; the lesser quills, and the coverts immediately 
over them, black, tipped with white ; tail cinereous ; legs bluish grey. 
The female weighs fifteen ounces ; length sixteen inches ; the bill 
is lead-colour ; head ferruginous, slightly crested ; the cheek, chin, 
throat, and all beneath white ; the breast clouded with grey ; on the 
side of the head the same oval spot as in the male ; back dusky, dashed 
with cinereous ; wings like the male ; legs dusky, in some inclining to 
ash-colour. 
*The young male has a few feathers of the adult plumage put forth 
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