ME ROUS MERGANSER, 
GOOSANDER. 
Generic Character. 
Bill flender, depreffed, both mandibles ferrated on the 
edges, the point of the upper mandible furnifhed 
with a curved nail. 
Tongue ferrated on the fides. 
Noftrils fmall, fituated near the centre of the bill. 
Toes as in the duck tribe with thefe exceptions, that 
the outer toe is the longeft, and the hind one has a 
kind of fin attached to it. 
Synonyms. 
Mergus Merganser, Lin. Syft. i. p, 208. 2. Ind. 
Orn. p. 828. 1. JV. Curtis Mfs. 
Merganser. IV. Curtis Mfs. 
Goosander or Merganser. Br, ZooL 2. 260. tak 
Q2.fig. lo Ib,foL 147. Ar5i. ZooL 
2.465. Ih,fupt,p.']^, Lath, Syn. 
6. p. 418. 1. Mont, Orn, Di^, Vol, 1. 
Bewick's Bn Birds ^ Ft. 2. ^. 228. 
JL H I S fpecies varies exceedingly in weight, fometimes 
weighing above five pounds and at others lefs than three ; its 
length is about two feet four to fix inches^ and breadth nearly 
three feet fix inches. Bill three inches and a quarter long, 
on the infide of the upper mandible are a double row of fmall 
ferratures^ 
