of the neck, bluish-black, tinged with rich purple and green ;
behind the eye, on the ear-coverts, and then.ee, upwards to
the crown of the head, and backwards to the occiput, a triangular
patch of pure white ; -the feathers! of the head elongated
forming a crest which is elevated at pleasure; lower p a rt^ f
the neck white ; back, jump, and tert'ials black ^scapulars;'
wing-coverts, and^econdaries whiles primari^..greyish!:bjac-k.;
tail-coverts and tail-feathers pale ash-grey ^breasty belly, and;
all -the under surface of-the body white ;^legs,^ods^ • and
membranes yellows Whol|J|length fifteen inches. From
the carpal joint to-the end of the longest- quilkfeathér,fsix
"Inches and three-quarters.
The female is smaller than tHeimale|ythe head'and; beck
ash-brown, with a -patch of white .b e h in £ th e k yÄ a p p r,p a rt
of the back greyish-brown, lower part black ;*wying-,cbverts,
primaries, and tertials' dark- greyish-browm; secondaries wlfft|&
tail ash-grey; breast^aiid belly dull w'hite-^^eni and -undeb
tail-covertstgreyish-white; legs and^KbluisH-blacf : who&v
length thirteen inches; wing =rix in c h ^ a g d Obe^part-er.
Young males m the first autumn, resemble,, f e m ^ ^ ^
The trachea,-described by Mr. A u d u b o b ^ s five-inches
long, muck flattened, its rings unoskifiedy itsdiam.efg$#
top two lines and three-quarters, towards theffower. part three
lines, having scarcely-any appearance, pfi, dilatat-ion*al ffhe part
which is, so, excessively enlargedrin" thé Gólden-Eyed ff&eky
whichyinfform Änd habits, .is-yet very clqsely allied.’^
The specimens from which the figure and descriptions here
given were derived, were obligingly lent me for my -uSeffn
this work by Mr. Joseph Clarke of Saffron Walden.
NATATORES. A N A T 1 D J E .
T H E SMEW.
MerguSialbelliifi, j, Smew( JM^gartgpr,. Zool. vol. ii. p. 216.
„ _ The Sinew,' Motfi-. Ornith. Diet.
' f) B ewick, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 276,male.
f g»/- % > »» » " » 276, female.
i ' Goosander, F l em . Brit. An. p. 129.
„* , S m e w \W ,W ^ ^ S f u n , ' Se lby ,"Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 385.
j*, 'Smew, • I ^'iJfefYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 25ff - -
Birds of Europe, pt. i.
t Temm. Man. d’Oraith. ve|L, ii. p. 887.
Merg-bs. ' Generic Characters. —Bill about as long, or longer than the
head, straight, slender, rather pointed, the base large, forming an elongated
and almost aeylmdrical cone; point of the upper mandible curved, and, with
the horny naff forming a hook ; edges of both mandibles furnished with saw-
-like teeth,, the points directed backwards. Nostrils lateral, about the middle
Of the beak, longitudinally elliptic. ^ Legs short, placed rather backward ; three
'ffes1 in' front webbed, hind toe with a pendant lobe or membrane. Wings
moderate, the. first and second quill-feathers nearly equal in length.