Class IL GOOSANDER MERGANSER. 



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GENUS XXIII. MERGANSER. 



Bill slender, furnished at the end with a crook- 

 ed nail ; edges of each mandible sharply 

 serrated. 



Nostrils near the middle of the mandible; 

 small, sub-ovated. 



Tongue slender. 



Feet, exterior toe longer than the middle. 



Mergus Merganser. M. sub- 

 cristatus albus, capite collo 

 supremo dorso remigibusque 

 aaigro-nitentibus, Cauda cine- 

 rea. Lath. Ind. orn. 828. id. 

 Syn, vi. 418. id. Sup. ii. 

 336. id. Lin. Tr. iv. 122. 



Merganser (Merrach.) Gesner 

 av. 135. 



Aldr. av. iii. 113. 



Goosander. Wil. orn. 335. 



Rail Syn. av. 134. 



Merganser, Le Harle. Brisson 

 av. vi. 231. Tah. 22. Hist, 

 d'ois. vlii. 267. PL Enl. 

 951. 



Meer-rache. Kram. 343. 



1. GOOSAN- 



See-Rache. Frisch, ii. I90, i>er. 



jqj (ISIale.) 



Mergus merganser. Gm. Lin. 



544. 

 Wrakfogel, Kjorkfogel, Ard, 



Skraka, Faun. Suec. sp. 



135. 

 Peksok, Crantzs Greeiil. i. 80. 

 Islandis Skior-And. Danis 



Skallesluger. Brunnich, QS, 



&93. 

 Br. Zool. 147. Tal. N. N.* 



Arct. Zool. ii. 257- 



Jl HESE birds frequent our rivers, and other 

 fresh waters, especially in hard winters; they 



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