A VES—GOOSANDER...MERGANSER. 671 
been produced; the shoveller,! which has a bill three inches long, and re- 
markably broad at the end; the pintail,? with the two middle feathers of the 
tail three inches longer than the rest; the long-tailed? duck, the general 
color of whose plumage is deep chocolate, and the outer feathers of the tail, 
which are white, four inches longer than the rest. 
THE GOOSANDER# 
Wercus about four pounds. The bill is red; the head very full of feathers 
on the top and back part. The plumage is various and beautiful. The 
head and upper parts are fine glossy black, the rump and tail ash color, and 
the under parts of the neck and body a fine pale yellow. Its manners and 
appetites entirely resemble those of the diver. It feeds upon fish, for which 
it dives; it is said to build its nest upon trees, like the heron and the cor- 
vorant. 
THE RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS 
Is smaller, weighing only twopounds. The head and neck are black, gloss- 
ed with green ; the rest of the neck and the belly white ; the upper part of the 
back is glossy black: the lower parts and the rump are striated with brown 
and pale gray; on the wings there are white bars tipped with black, and 
1 Anas clypeata, Lin. 2 Anas Labradora, GMEt. 3 Anas glacialis. 
4 Mergus merganser, Lin. The genus Mergus has the bill middle-sized or long, slen- 
der, in the form of an elongated cone, and almost cylindrical; bas2 broad; tip of the up 
per mandible much hooked, and furnished with a nail; edges of both mandibles serrated 
in a backward direction; nostrils lateral towards the middle of the bill; legs short, placed 
backwards on the abdomen, the three fore toes completely webbed, the hind toe articulated 
on the tarsus. 
Mergzus serrator, Lun. 
