PLATE XLIX. 



MERGUS MERGANSER. 

 GOOSANDER. 



A N S E R E S. 



Bill obtufe, covered with a thin membrane, broad, gibbous below 

 the bafe, fwelled at the apex. Tongue flefhy, Legs naked, Feet 

 webbed, or finned, 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill long, roundifh, taper, ferrated and hooked at the apex. A 

 creft on the Head. Migrate, 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Goofander male. Bill, Irides and Legs red. Head black." Lower 

 part of the Neck, Bread and Belly white. Wings and Tail black 

 and white. 



Mergus Merganser: crifta dependente, capite nigro-coerulef- 



cente, collari albo. Linn* Syjl. Nat. I. 

 p. 129. 62. 2. edit. 10. 

 Mergus jEthiops. Scop. Ann. 1* N° 90. 



Mergus Cirrhatus (faem.) Gefn. av. 134. Merganfer (Merrach) 1-35. 

 Mergan&er, or Goosander. Will. orn. 335. 



Raii Syn. p. 134. A. I. 



Perm. Br. Zool. Vol. 2. /.' 556. 



46. 260. 

 Lath. Gen. Syn. Vol 6. p. 418. I* 

 Suppl. p. 270, 2. 



A 2 L'Harl* 



