55$ 



GOOSANDER. Class II. 



XL VI. 



MERGAN. 

 SER. 



BILL {lender, furniilied at the end with a crooked 

 nail. Edges of each mandible fharply ferrated. 



NOSTRILS near the middle of the mandible. 

 Small, fub-ovated. 



TONGUE (lender. 



FEET, exterior toe longer than the middle. 



260. Goos- Mergus cirrhatus (fam.) Qef- 

 ander. ner wo, 134. Merganfer 



(Merrach) 135. 

 Aldr. wo. III. 113. 

 Goofander. Wil. cm. 335. 

 Dun diver, or Sparling-fowl. 



ibid. 

 Raii fyn. a~v. 1 34. 

 Merganfer, 1' Harle. Briffbn 



wo. VI. 231. Tab. 22. 

 Meer-rache. Kram. 343. 



Frifch, 11. \go, 

 Lin.fyft. 



See-Rache. 



191. 

 Mergus merganfer. 



208. 

 Wrakfogel, Kjorkfogel, Ard, 



Skraka. Faun. Suec. fp. n,^. 

 Fekfok. Crantz'sGreenl. I. 80. 

 Skior.-And. Danis 



Skallefluger. Brunnich, 92, 



& 93 . 

 Br. Zool. 147. 



IJIandis 



Dsscrip, 



THESE birds frequent our rivers, and other 

 frefh waters, efpecially in hard winters ; 

 they are great divers, and live on fifh. They are 

 never feen in the fouthern parts of Great Britain 

 during fummer ; when they retire far north to 

 breed -, for in that feafon they have been mot in 

 the Hebrides. They are uncommonly rank, and 

 fcarcely eatable. 



The male weighs four pounds: its length is 

 two feet four inches ; the breadth three feet two. 



The 



