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BIRDS.- ANSERES. 32. Mergus. 
Inliabits northern parts of' Europe, Afia and America ; aS 
inches long ; builds fometimes in trees, but generally among 
rocks, feeds on fvfh ; its llclb is rancid. 
Stll, kgs and irids red ; greater quill-feathers black, leiler 
■ white. 
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“■Jlor, Crefted, cifiereous ^ head and upper part of the neck bay } 
chin, middle cjuill-feathers and belly -white. 
Dun-diver. 
Inhabits with the laft ; 23—27 inchqs-long. 
BUiinA irids rud-, belly fometimes tlelh-colour. 
'’■'•aJor. Creft pendent ; breaft variegated with^ reddilli ; collar 
white ; tail-feathers brown varied with cinereous. 
Red-breajied 
Inhabits northern parts of Europe, Apa and Amerua : 2t 
inches long. , - , r 1 » n 
Bill beneath and legs red ; feather's of the fides of the breyl 
large, white, edged with black, covering the fore-part of 
the folded wings. 
Mdk, hind-head cTcHtd'P head and upper part of the neck green. 
Eemale fcarcely crefted ; head and beginning of the neck rufous. 
2* Above black, beneath white ; greater quill-feathers black ; 
tail brown ; variety of the male. 
3 ’ Above black, beneath white ; neck bay ; wings with a 
tranfverfe white ftripci greater quill-feathers and tail 
black ; variety of the female. 
with black, brown and grey; head fmooth; firft 
quill-feathers black ; wing-fpot o; bill and legs red- 
dilh-white. Imperial GooJ under. 
Inhabits Sardinia ; fize of a goofe ; tongue fringed. 
Crefl. pendent ; hind-head black ; body white ; back and 
temples black; wings variegated. _ 
Smew. White Nun* 
Inhabits £itro/;« and America; 16 — 1 7 inches long. 
Bill and legs black ; luing-fpot white ; nape, oval fpot h"®®* 
the bill lurrounding the eyes, back, and 3 arched lines each 
fide near the beginning of the wings black. 
Eemale, head finouth, grey ; band acrofs the eyes black, and 
under the eyes a white fpot ; body above blackifh-browit, 
beneath white ; upper part of the b'ay ; cAiii ''vhite. 
*Minxitus, 
