55 6 GOOSANDER. Class II, 



XLVI. BILL (lender, furniflied at the end with a crooked 



ME S R ER AN " nai1 ' Ed S es of each mandible foarply ferrated. 

 NOSTRILS near the middle of the mandible. 



Small, iub-ovated. 

 TONGUE flender. 

 FEET, exterior toe longer than the middle. 



260. Goos- Mergus cirrhatus (fam .) Gef- See-Rache. Frifcb, II. 190, 



akder. ner aw. 134. Merganfer 191. 



(Merrach) 135. Mergus merganfer. Lin.fyji. 



Aldr. av. III. 113. 20S. 



Goofander. Wil orn. 335. Wrakfogel, Kjorkfogel, Ard, 



Dun diver, or Sparling-fowl. Skraka. Faun Suec.fp.135. 



Hid. Pekfok. Crantz's Green/. I. 80. 



Rail fyn. av. 134. IJlandis Skior-And. Danis 



Merganfer, V Harle. Briffon Skallefluger. Brunnich, 92, 



av. VI. 231. Tab. 22. & 93. 



Meer-rache. Kram. 343. Br. Zocl. 147. 



THESE birds frequent our rivers, and other 

 frefh %aters, efpecially in hard winters; 

 they are great divers, and live on fifh. They are 

 never feen in the fouthern parts of Great Britain 

 during fummer ; when they retire far north to 

 breed ; for in that feafon they have been mot in 

 the Hebrides. They are uncommonly rank, and 

 fcarcely eatable. 

 Descrip. The male weighs four pounds: its length is 

 two feet four inches -, the breadth three feet two. 



The 



