British zoology . ..y/x>< Class II. S M E W. 559 feathers du/ky. Tail fhort and brown: legs oranetccolored. The head and upper part of the neck of thefemale of a deep ruft color : the creft fhort: throatwhite : fore part of the neck and bread marbledwith deep afh color: belly white: great quil-fea-thers dufky: lower half of the neareft fecondariesblack; the upper white; the reft dufky: back,fcapulars, and tail afh colored. The upper halfof the firft fecondary feathers white; the lowerhalf black : the others dufky. Thefe birds breed in the northern parts of GreatBritain; we have fc^n them
British zoology . ..y/x>< Class II. S M E W. 559 feathers du/ky. Tail fhort and brown: legs oranetccolored. The head and upper part of the neck of thefemale of a deep ruft color : the creft fhort: throatwhite : fore part of the neck and bread marbledwith deep afh color: belly white: great quil-fea-thers dufky: lower half of the neareft fecondariesblack; the upper white; the reft dufky: back,fcapulars, and tail afh colored. The upper halfof the firft fecondary feathers white; the lowerhalf black : the others dufky. Thefe birds breed in the northern parts of GreatBritain; we have fc^n them and their young onLoch Mari in the county of Rofs, and in the ifle ofHay. LaPiette. Be/on av. 171. LepetitharlehupeoulePiettc. 262. Smew. Mergus rhenanus. Gejner av. BriJJbn tvo. VI. 243. Tab. ,,31 24. fig. 1. & 2. III. in. Kram. 344. White Nun. mil. mm. 337. Kreutz-Ente (Crofs-Duck) Lough Diver. 338. Frifch, II. 172. Rati fyn. av. 135. Cimbris Hviid Side. Evunnich, Mergus albellus. Lin. fyfl. 97. _,
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