GOOSANDER, AND RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 53? 



LVI. MERGANSER. Gen. Birds, XC. 



Sr, ZaoL ii. N° 260. — Mergus Merganfer, Wrakfage), Kjorfagel, Skraka, Faun, +65. Goosander. 

 Suec. N° 135. — Le Harle, De Buffon, viii. 267. — PL Enl. 951, 953. — 

 Latham, lii. — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



With a red bill : head full of feathers, loofe behind, and of a 

 .• mallard green : lower part of the neck and belly of a fine 

 ftraw-color : upper part of the back, and fcapulars next to it, black : 

 lower part of the back, and the tail, cinereous : primaries duflcy ; fecon- 

 daries white, edged with black : coverts on the ridge of the wing 

 black; the others white : legs a full orange. Weight four pounds. 

 Length two ket four. Extent three feet two. Head and upper 

 part of the neck of the Female, or Dun Diver, ferruginous : behind 

 IS a pendent creft: throat white: back, coverts of wings, and the tail, 

 cinereous : primaries dufky : bread and middle of the belly white. 



Inhabits the province of New Tork in winter : retires in Aprily Place. 



probably to Hudfon's Bay, and other northern countries. It is alfo 

 found as low as South Carolina *. Breeds in every latitude in the 

 Ruffian empire ; but moftly in the north. Is common in Kamtfchatka. 

 Extends through northern Europe to Iceland and Greenland ■\. Con- 

 tinues the whole year in the Orknies; but vifits South Britain only in 

 fevere winters. Swims with its body very deep in the wattr : dives 

 admirably ; and is a great devourer of fifli. 



Br. Zool. ii. N° 261. — Mergus ferrator, Ptacka, Faun- Suec. N" 136. — Le Harle 466. Red- 

 huppe, De B«fott, vm. zj^.—Pl. Enl. 207.— f<j»». Groenl. N° 48.— la- bre»sted, 



tham, iii. —Lev. Mus. 1 



"^/l With a crefted head ; and part of the neck a mallard green: 



reft of the neck, and whole belly, white : breaft ferruginous, 



fpottcd with black : upper part of the back black : exterior fcapulars 



• The birds like a Duck^ with a narrow bill, with fats of teeth, called in Carolina, 

 Tijhermen, and defcribed ashaving a fifliy tafte, are of this fpecies. See Laiv/on, 150. 

 f Oloftfi /«/««<!'— and Faun. Groenl. N" 49. 



3 Z black i 



