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bread: are marbled with deep aih-color : the belly 
is white : the greater quil feathers are black ; the 
lefier have their upper halves white : the coverts 
on the ridge of the wing are aih-color ; the next 
are white; and the lowed tipt with black : the 
back, fcapulars, and tail are aih-colored. Mr. 
Brijfon defcribes this as the female of the red 
D S. 
breafted Goofander. Edw. av. 95. Mr. Willough¬ 
by too fufpe&s that its male reprefents fome bird 
limilar to the Goofander : as the former is fre¬ 
quent in the Baltic fea*, the fpecies we defcribe 
may prove only its female} and, as is fometimes 
the cafe with other birds, the female only mi¬ 
grates. 
* Brunnicb. ornith. 23 . 
S P E C I E S III. The Smew. Plate 0 i. 
White Nun. WtL orn . 337 - 
Lough Diver. 338. 
Raii fyn . av , I 3 S- 
Mergus albellus. Lin. fyft. 129. 
I T S weight is thirty-four ounces ; the length 
eighteen inches; the breadth twenty-fix. 
The bill is near two inches long, and of a lead 
color : the head is adorned with a long creft, 
white above, black beneath : from a little beyond 
the eye to the bill, is a large oval black fpot, 
globed with green ; the head, neck, and whole 
under fide of the body are of a pure white 5 on 
the lower part of the neck are two femilunar black 
lines pointing forward; the inner fcapulars, the 
back, the coverts on the ridge of the wing, and 
the greater quil feathers are black 5 the middle 
Merganfer criftatus minor. Brijfon 
av. VI. 243. Tab. 24. Fig. 1 & 2. 
Mergus rhenanus. Gefner av. I 3 i- 
rows of coverts are white ; the next black, tipt 
with white ; the leiler quil feathers the fame ; the 
fcapulars next the wings white: the tail deep 
aih-color : the legs a bluiih grey. 
The female, or lough Diver , is lefs than the 
male. The marks in the wings are the fame in 
both fexes : the back, the fcapulars, and the tail 
are duiky : the head, and hind part of the neck 
ferruginous : chin, and fore part of the neck 
white : the bread: clouded with grey ; the belly 
white : the legs duiky. 
SPECIES IV. The red headed Smew. Plate 2. 
The weefel coot. sllb. av. i. p. 84, 
Tab. 88. 
Mergus minutus ? Tin. fyft. 129. 
Merganfer ftellatus ? Brijfon av. VI. 
252. 
HIS bird weighs fifteen ounces : the 
lencrth is one foot four inches ; the 
breadth one foot eleven inches : the 
bill is of a lead color : the head is ilightly crefted, 
and of a ruft color : from beyond the eyes to the 
bill is an oval black fpot : the cheeks and throat 
are white : the hind part of the neck is of a deep 
grey : the fore part clouded with a lighter : the 
belly white : the back and tail are of a duiky aih- 
color : the legs of a pale aih-color : the wings 
have exactly the fame marks and colors with the 
fmew \ and as the fpaces between the eyes and 
bill are marked with a fimilar fpot in both : if 
authors did not agree to make the lough diver 
the female of that bird, we fhould fuppofe this to 
be it. 
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