MERGANSER 



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GENUS CVI. -MERGANSER 



1 Goosander 



B Var. 



2 Imperial 



4 Hooded 



3 Red-breasted 



5 Brown 



A Var. 



6 Smew 



A Var. 



7 Fork-tailed 



8 Blue 



ILL slender, cylindrical, somewhat depressed at the base, clen- 

 tated, or sawed on the sides; at the end a crooked nail. 



Nostrils small, oval, in the middle of the bill. 



Feet furnished with four toes, pal mated, three forwards, and 

 one behind ; the outer one before longer than that of the middle. 



1. —GOOSANDER MERGANSER. 



MALE. 



Mergus Merganser, Ind. Om.'u. S28. Lin. i. 208. Faun. suec. No. 135. Gm.Lin.'x. 



544. Besch. Berl. Nat. ii. 551. Id. iii. 457. N. Act. Stock. 1785. iv. 287. No. 



5. Brun. No. 92. Mull. No. 133. Kram. 343. I. Sepp, iv. t. p. 325. Georgi, 



169. Gm. reise, ii. 188. t. 20. Bar. iii. 21. t. 33. Fn. groenl. No. 49. Bru.vi. 



231. t. 22. Id. 8vo. ii. 423. Raii, 134. A. 1, Will. 253. t. 64. Faun. Helvet. 



Schcef. el. t. 47. Gerin. v. t. 508. Nat. Misc. pi. 445. Amer. Om. viii. 68. pi. 



6S. 1.— male and female. Tern. Man. 577. Id. Ed. 2d. 882. 

 Senator, Klein, 140. Besch. Berl. Nat. i. 170. 

 Der Gansen Sager, Schmid, 154. t. 132. 

 Mergus jEthiops, Scop. i. No. 90. 

 Seerach mit schwartzem Kopfe, Frisch, t. 190. 

 Tauchergans, Bes. Berl. Nat. iv. 594. t. 18. f. 3. Schr. Berl. Nat. vii. 119. Bechst. 



Deutsch. ii. 724. Id. Ed. 2d. iv. 781. 

 Le Harle, Buf. viii. 267. ph 23. PI. enl. 951. Rob. Ic. pi. 18. 

 Goosander Merganser, Gen. Syn. vi. 418. Id. Sup. ii. 336. Br. Zool. ii. No. 260. 



pi. 92. f. 1. Id.fol. 147. t. N.* N. Id. 1812. ii. 311. pi. 37. Arct. Zool. ii. 



No. 465. Id. Sup. 73. Fl. Scot, i. p. 42. Will. Engl. 335. pi. 64. Bawicfc, ii. 



pi. p. 254. Lewin, vi. pi. 231. Lin. Trans, iv. 122. Id. viii. 268. Walcot, i. 



pi. 79. Donov. iii. pi. 49. Pult. Dors. p. 19. Orn. Diet. Sf Supp. 



THE weight of this species is about four pounds, length twenty- 

 eight inches, breadth forty. The bill is red, three inches long, 

 narrow, toothed on the edges of both mandibles, the tip of the upper 

 much bent, and of the under a little swelling ; irides red ; the head 



