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Genus XCI. MERGANSER. 



N° i. Goofander. Var. B. 



2. Dun-Diver. N° 4. Hooded M. 

 Var. A. 5. Smew M. 



3. Red-breafted M. 6. Minute M. 

 Var. A. 



ILL flender, a little deprefTed, furnifhed at the end with 

 a crooked nail j edges of the mandibles very fharply fer- 

 rated. 



Noftrils near the middle of the mandible, fmall, and fub- 

 ovated. 



Feet furnifhed with four toes, three forwards and one behind ; 

 the outer toe before longer than the middle one. 



, t Mcrgus Merganfer, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 208. 2. — Faun. Suec. N° 135.— Bran. 



-t-GOOSANDER. N° gz.—Mulltr, N° 133.— Kna». El. p. 343. N° i.—Georgi Reife, 



p. 169. — Faun. Groenl. N° 49. — Frifcb. N° 190. 

 Mergus ./Echiops, Scop. Ann. i. N° 90. 

 L'Harle, Brif. Orn. vi. p. 231. 1. pi. 22. — Buf. Oif. viii. p. 267. pi. 23. — 



PL Enl. 931. 

 Merganfer, or Goofander, Raii Syn. p. 134. A. 1. — Will. Orn. p. 333. 

 pi. 64.— Br. Zool. N° 260. pi. 92. fig. x.—Artt. Zool. N° 465. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description. "V'^T'EIGHT nearly four pounds : length twenty-eight inches : 

 breadth forty. The bill three inches long, narrow, tooth- 

 ed on the edges of both mandibles ; the tip of the upper much 

 6 bent, 



