. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. ANATIN/E — THE DUCKS — LOPHODYTES. 121 Lophodsrtes cucullatns. THE HOODED BHELDBAEE. Mergus cucullatus, Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 129; ed. 12, I. 17tJ6, 207. — Wils. Am. Orn. VIII. 1814, pi. l.\ix. tig. 1 —Sw. & Kitii. ¥. B. A. II. 1831, 463. —Nurr. Man. II. 1834, 465.— Auj). Oni. Uiog. III. 1835, 246, pi. 233; Synop. 1839, 299 ; B. Am. VI. 1843, 402, pi. 413. — CouEs, Key, 1872, 296 ; Check List, 1873, no. 523 ; 2d cd. 1882, no. 745 ; B. N. W. 1874, 684. Lophodi/lcs cucullatus, Rkiciienb. S
. The water birds of North America [microform]. Birds; Water-birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux aquatiques. ANATIN/E — THE DUCKS — LOPHODYTES. 121 Lophodsrtes cucullatns. THE HOODED BHELDBAEE. Mergus cucullatus, Linn. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 129; ed. 12, I. 17tJ6, 207. — Wils. Am. Orn. VIII. 1814, pi. l.\ix. tig. 1 —Sw. & Kitii. ¥. B. A. II. 1831, 463. —Nurr. Man. II. 1834, 465.— Auj). Oni. Uiog. III. 1835, 246, pi. 233; Synop. 1839, 299 ; B. Am. VI. 1843, 402, pi. 413. — CouEs, Key, 1872, 296 ; Check List, 1873, no. 523 ; 2d cd. 1882, no. 745 ; B. N. W. 1874, 684. Lophodi/lcs cucullatus, Rkiciienb. SyHt. Av. 1852, p. ix.—Baiud, B. N. Am. 1858, 816; Cat. N. Am. B. 1859, no. 613. — RiDow. Norn. N. Am. B. 1881, no. 638. IIab. All of North America, south to Mexico nnd Cuba, north to Alaska, and accidentally to Greenland ; breeds nearly throughout its ranye ; Bermudas, in autumn ; casual in Europe. Sp. Chau. A(htlt male: Head, neck, buck, and scapulars black ; crest chiefly pure white, but bordered by a distinct" rim " of black ; forehead, and feathers round base of the bill, dark fuligi- nous, but this blending insensibly into the deep black. Wing-coverts dark gray, lijiliter and more ashy posteriorly; greater coverts broadly tipped with white, the base black, this exposed suffi- ciently to show a distinct band ; inner secondaries with their exposed surface (in closed wing) white, the basal por- tion black, showing narrowly beyond the end of the greater coverts ; tertials with a central stripe of white. Pri- maries, priniiiiy coverts, rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail brownish dusky. Sides of the breast crossed by two black crescents, projecting from the black of the back, these interdigitatiiig with two white ones, the last crescent being black. Sides and flanks rusty cinnamon (more grayish anteriorly), narrowly undulated witli black; remaining lower parts white, the posterior part of the crissum mottled with grayish brown. Bill deep black ; iris
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