BRITISH BIRDS, 
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In a male of this fpecies which was fhot at Sand- 
wich, in Kent, Latham fays — “ I obferved that 
the feathers which compofe the creft, were fimply 
black; alfo down the middle of the crown, as 
well as the fpace before the eye, and beneath the 
chin and throat ; but in the reft of the neck the 
black had a glofs of green.’’ He alfo defcribes it 
as having a curious and large labyrinth,” fimi- 
iar, it is fuppofed, to thofe of other males of this 
genus which have been noticed before. 
The Red-breafted Merganfer is not common in 
Britain, particularly in the fouthern parts of the 
illand ; but they are met with in great flocks at New- 
foundland, Greenland, and Hudfon’s Bay, during 
the fummer months ; they are found alfo in various 
other northern parts of the world, and in the Me- 
diterranean fea. 
