On May 22 and on May 30, I found a female merganser at Woods Road in Darke County.
It was at least as large as a mallard with maybe a fuller body.
I'm not very experienced with mergansers. It was in the water and on 
shore.   It did seem to have a white breast that went all the way to the 
neck.  I didn't see a white chin.  It was difficult to tell for sure if 
the neck was defined   It was constantly preening.   It does look more like the female red breasted in 
Kaufman's, but Sybley's confused me because of the breast being very white. On May 22, it was getting dark when I saw it and the white spot towards the 
back of the body behind the wings? was well defined more like the common.   It did have more 
feathering to the back of the head like an eared grebe would have, but the 
whole head appeared red.

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