. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 296 ANATIDiE, MERGANSERS. GEN. 271-2. Obs. The smew, or white nun, Mergelliis albellus, of Europe, has been attributed to N. Am. upon insufficient evidence, though very possibly occurring. Wils., viii, 12G, pi. 71, f. 4 ; NuTT., ii, 467 ; Aud., vi, 408, pi. 414 ; Bd., 817. 271-2. Genus MERGUS Linnaeus. * Bill not shorter than head, mostly red.
. Key to North American birds; containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary. Illustrated by 6 steel plates and upwards of 250 woodcuts. Birds. 296 ANATIDiE, MERGANSERS. GEN. 271-2. Obs. The smew, or white nun, Mergelliis albellus, of Europe, has been attributed to N. Am. upon insufficient evidence, though very possibly occurring. Wils., viii, 12G, pi. 71, f. 4 ; NuTT., ii, 467 ; Aud., vi, 408, pi. 414 ; Bd., 817. 271-2. Genus MERGUS Linnaeus. * Bill not shorter than head, mostly red. {Merrjus.) V Merganser. Goosander. Fish Buck. Nostrils nearly median; frontal feathers reaching beyond those on sides of bill; <J with the head scarcely crested, glossy green; back and wings black aad white, latter crossed by one black bar; under parts salmon-colored; abont 24; wing 11; ? smaller; occipital crest better developed, but still flimsy ; head and neck reddish- brown ; black parts of the S ashy-gray ; less white on the wing ; under parts less tinted with salmon. N. Am., common. WiLS., viii, 68, pi. 68, f. 1, 2 ; Ndtt., ii, 460 ; Aud., vi, 387, pi. 411; 31. amerkanus Bd., 813. merganser. Red-breasted Mer- ganser. Fish Duck. Nostrils sub-basal; frontal feathers not reaching beyond those on sides of bill; along thin pointed crest in both sexes. Smaller than the last; wing Fig. l'J5. Red-breasted Merganser, with outline of bill fniui ;ibtj\'c. ^_Q . crenei'il oolor- ' to ation, and sexual differences, the same, but the <J with the jugulum rich reddish-brown, black-streaked, the sides conspicuously finely waved with black, a white, black-boixlered mark in front of the wing, and the wing crossed by two black bars. N. Am., abundant. Wils., viii, 91, pi. 69, f. 2; NuTT., ii, 463; Aud., vi, 395, pi. 412; Bd., 814. . serrator. ** Bill shorter than head, mostly or entirely black. {Lophodytes.') y 1 L- Hooded Merganser. Nostrils sub-basal; frontal feathers reaching beyond
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