436* GOOSANDER. Clafs II; 



Genus XVII. GOOSANDERS. 



I. The GOOSANDER. 



Mergus cirrhatus {/rem.) Ge/ver Meer-rache. Kram. 343. 



av, 134. Merganfer (Meiracn) Mergus merganfer. Lin.fyft. 208. 



135. Wrakfogel, Kjorkfogel, Ard, 



Aldr. a<y. iii. 113. Skraka. Faun. Suec./p. 135. 



Goofander. Wil. orn. 335. Pekfok. Cranio s Greenl. i. 80. 



Dun diver,orSparling-fowl./<W. ljlandis Skior- And. T)anh Skalle- 



Raiijyn. av. 134. Auger. Brunnicb. 92. & 93. 



Merganfer, l'Harle. Brijfon av. Br. Zcol. 147. 



vi. 231. tab. 22. 



/ "T~ A HESE birds frequent our rivers, and other 

 -*■ frefli waters, efpecially in hard winters ; they 

 Defer, are great divers, and live on fifti. 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 ferrated : the color of 

 that, and the irides is red. The head is large, and 

 the feathers on the hind part long and loofe : the color 

 black, finely glofTcd with green : the upper part of 

 the neck the fame : the lower part, and under fide of 

 the body of a fine pale yellow : the upper part of the 

 back, and inner fcapulars are black : the lower part 

 of the back, and the tail are afh-colored: the tail 

 confifts of eighteen feathers : the greater quil-feathers 

 are black, the leifer white, fome of which are edged 

 with black : the coverts at the fetting on of the wing 

 are black ; the reft white : the legs of a deep orange 



color. 



The 



