. Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. Pla CE. 467. Hooded. Place. HOODED MERGANSER. wing, and lefler coverts, dark blue: greater coverts blue, marked with a white fpot: fecondaries white on the outfide, blue on the inner: tail black, fliort, and rounded: legs blue. Weight fourteen ounces. Length fourteen inches. Arrives in Hudfon's Bay in June: lays ten fmaU white eggs, and makes its neft on the top of fome ftump of a tree, near the fides of ^ ponds, and forms a cavity by fcraping away the rotten wood: ' hatches in July, and immediately conveys its young to die water: retires in O^o
. Arctic zoology [microform]. Zoology; Zoologie. Pla CE. 467. Hooded. Place. HOODED MERGANSER. wing, and lefler coverts, dark blue: greater coverts blue, marked with a white fpot: fecondaries white on the outfide, blue on the inner: tail black, fliort, and rounded: legs blue. Weight fourteen ounces. Length fourteen inches. Arrives in Hudfon's Bay in June: lays ten fmaU white eggs, and makes its neft on the top of fome ftump of a tree, near the fides of ^ ponds, and forms a cavity by fcraping away the rotten wood: ' hatches in July, and immediately conveys its young to die water: retires in O^ol Round-crefted Duck, Catejhy, i. 94.—£^w. 360.—Latham, iii. Mergus cucuUatus, Lin. Syji. 207 Lev. Mus.—Bl. Mus. J^^ With a large, upright, circular creft, beginning at the bafe of the bill, and ending at the hind part of the h-adj flabelli- form, edged with black j the reft white; and on each fide, above the eyes, ftreaked widi a fhorter fet of black feathers: forehead, cheeks, neck, back, and tail, black: breaft and belly white: fides yellowifh ruft, croffed by flender dufky lines. Head and neck of the Female dark alh, mottled with black: creft ftiort, and ruft- colored: back, wings, and tail, dufky j the wings croffed with a white line: breaft and belly white. In Size between a Wigeon and a Teal. This fpecies breeds in fome unknown parts of the north. Ap- pears in New Torky and other parts oi North America^ as low as Virginm and Carolina^ in November-, inid frequents frelh waters: retires in March, Br,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798. London : Printed for Robert Faulder . ..
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