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GOOSANDER MERGANSER. Cuass If. 
are great divers, and live on fish. They are 
never seen in the southern parts of Great Bri- 
tam during summer, when they retire far north 
to breed ; but in that season they have been shot 
in the Hebrides. ‘They are uncommonly rank, 
and scarcely eatable. 
The male weighs four pounds; its length is 
two feet four inches ; the breadth three feet two. 
The bill is three inches long, narrow, and finely 
toothed, or serrated; the color of that, and the 
irides, is red. The head is large, and the fea- 
thers on the hind part long and loose; the color 
black, finely glossed with green ; the upper part 
of the neck the same ; the lower part, and under 
side of the body of a fine pale yellow; the upper 
part of the back, and inner scapulars are black ; 
the lower part of the back, and the tail are ash 
colored; the tail consists of eighteen feathers ; 
the greater quil feathers are black, the lesser 
white, some of which are edged with black ; the 
coverts at the setting on of the wing are black ; 
the rest white; the legs of a deep orange-color. 
