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416 M E R G A N S E R .
Var. B.
D e s c r i p t i o n «
Place.
L’Harle noir, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 251. 5.
C I Z E of a Buck. Bill black: head, back and rump, fcapu-
lars, and upper tail coverts, black: neck chefnut: breaft,
belly, and under parts, white : wings black, croffed with a tranf-
verfe band of white : tail black: legs black.
Found in Germany. This feems a variety of the female.
Ho o d e d m .
Pi . c i .
D e s c r i p t i o n .
25$. 8.—PI. Enl. 935 (the
Mergus cucullatus, Lin, SyJI. i. p. 207. J*
L’Harle hupe de Virginie, Brif. Orn. vi
male) 5 936 (the female.)
L’Harle couronne, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 280.
Ecatototl altera, Raii Syn. p. 175.
Wind Bird, Will, Orn, p. 389.
Round-crefted Duck, Edvj. pi. $6o,— Catefi, Car. i. pi. 94»
Hooded Merganfer, Ar8, Zool. N° 467.
Br. Mu/. Lev. Muf.
C I Z E nearly that of a TVigeon : length feventeen inches and a
half: breadth twenty-three inches: weight nearly twenty-three
ounces. Bill an inch and a half long, black, furnifhed with a
nail at the end : irides golden : head of a dark brown : forehead
paler: the head furnilhed with a large rounded creft,
flat on the fides : round the eyes, and the middle of the creft,
black; the reft white, tipped all round with black: the head,
neck, back, and quills, black: tail dufky: the under parts
from the breaft white : fides of the breaft, and lower part of
the neck, undulated with black: the wing coverts are deep
brown; acrofs the lower ones a bar of white ; and a mixture of
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the laft on the fcapulars : fides of the breaft fine tawny, crofied
with black lines : fides of the vent the fame, elegantly barred :
legs black.
The female has the head and neck dark afti-colour, mottled
with black : creft ihort, and ruft-coloured : back, wings, and
tail, dulky: a white line acrofs the wings: breaft and belly
white.
This elegant fpecies inhabits North America. Appears at
Hudfon’s Bay the end of May, and builds clofe to the lakes : the
neft is compofed of graft, lined with feathers from the breaft.
Lays from four to fix white eggs. The young are yellow,
and are fit to fly in July. They all depart from thence in
autumn. Appear at New fork, and other parts as low as Virginia
and Carolina, in November. Frequent frefh waters. Return
to the north in March. Called at Hudfon’s Bay, Omifku
Jheep *.
* Mr. Hutchins.
3 1 2
- Female.
Place and
Manners.
Mergtts