Ciass Il. GOOSANDER MERGANSER. 
GENUS XXIII. 
MERGANSER. 
Brut slender, furnished at the end with a crook- 
ed nail; edges of each mandible sharply 
serrated. 
Nostriis near the middle of the mandible ; 
small,- sub-ovated. 
ToncueE slender. 
Mergus Merganser. M. sub- 
cristatus albus, capite collo 
supremo dorso remigibusque 
nigro-nitentibus, cauda cine- 
rea. Lath. Ind. orn. 828. id. 
Syn. vi. 418. id. Sup. i. 
336. id. Lin. Tr. iw. 122. 
Merganser (Merrach.) Gesner 
av. 135. 
Aldr. av. iii. 113. 
Goosander. Wil. orn. 335. 
Rai Syn. av. 134. 
Merganser, Le Harle. Brisson 
av. vi. 231. Tub. 22. Hist. 
@ois. viii. 267. Pl. Eni. 
951. 
FEET, exterior toe longer than the middle. 
Meer-rache. Kram. 343. 
See-Rache. Frisch, ii. 190, 
1g1 Ss 
Mergus merganser. Gm. Lin. 
544. 
Wrakfogel, Kjorkfogel, Ard, 
Skraka, Faun. Suec. sp. 
135. 
Peksok. Crantz’s Greenl. i. 80. 
Islandis Skior-And. Danis 
Skallesluger. Brunnich, 92, 
& 93. 
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1. GoosAaN- 
DER. 
(MALE.) 
Br. Zool. 147. Tab. N. N.* - 
Arct. Zool. ii. 257. 
ne THESE birds frequent our rivers, and other 
fresh waters, especially in hard winters; they 
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