MERGUS. MERGANSER. 



GOOSANDER. 

 [Plate LX VIII. Fig. 2. Female.] 



PEALE'S Museum, 7Vo. 2933. Dun Diver, LATH. Syn. m, p. 420. 

 Arct. Zool. /Vo. 465. BEWICK'S Brit. Birds, n, p. 23. 

 TURT. Syst.p. 335. V "Harle femelle, Buiss. vi,^. 236. BUFF. 

 vni, p. 272. PL Enl 953.* 



THIS generally measures an inch or two shorter than the 

 male; the length of the present specimen was twenty -five inches, 

 extent thirty-five inches; bill crimson on the sides, black above: 

 irides reddish; crested head and part of the neck dark brown, 

 lightest on the sides of the neck, where it inclines to a sorrel 

 colour; chin and throat white; the crest shoots out in long ra- 

 diating flexible stripes; upper part of the body, tail, and flanks 

 an ashy slate, tinged with brown; primaries black; middle se- 

 condaries white, forming a large speculum on the wing; great- 

 er coverts black, tipt for half an inch with white; sides of the 

 breast, from the sorrel coloured part of the neck downwards, 

 very pale ash, with broad semicircular touches of white; belly 

 and lower part of the breast a fine yellowish cream colour, a 

 distinguishing trait also in the male; legs and feet orange red. 



Jtfergtts Castor, GMEL. Syst. i, p. 545, elvar. LATH. Ind. Orn. p. 829, No. 2. 

 Dun Diver, MONTAGU, Orn. Diet. Sup. 



