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ORD. III. GENUS VIII. MERGANSER. 



Bill, flender, a little deprefied, furnilhed at the end with a crooked nail: 



the edges of each mandible ftiarply ferrated. 

 Nostrils, near the middle of the mandible, fmall, fub-ovate. 

 Tongue, flender. . ' , ... 



Toes, four, three forward, one behind: extenor toe longer than the mid- 



die one. 



SPECIES I. GOOSANDER, 

 PL 232. 



Mergus merganfer. Lin. Syft. I. p. ao8. 



L'Harle. Brif. Orn. VI. p. aji. 

 The male of this fpecies weighs four pounds $ is two feet four inches in 

 length, and three feet in breadth. The bill is three inches long, narrow, and 

 of a bright orange colour, as are the eyes: head, large; earners on the hind 

 part, long, and of a gloffy greeniib black: upper part of the neck of the fame 

 colour: the remainder of the neck, the breaft, and under part of the body 

 white- upper part of the back, and inner fcapulars, black: the lower part of 

 The bckthe" vent, and the tail, afh-coloured : the greater -cpU feather,, 

 black ; the lefs, white, only fome of them are edged W1 th black : the coverts, 

 at the Vetting on of the wings, black, the reft, white: legs of a deep orange. 



This bird frequents our rivers and other frefh waters, is a great diver, lives 

 ,on fifh, and retires far north to breed. 



