MERGUS. MERGANSER. 
GOOSANDER. 
[Plate LXVIII. — Fig. 2. Female,'] 
Pkale’s Museum, JVo. 2933. — Dun Diver, Lath. Syn. iii,p. 420. 
— Jirci. Zool. JVo. 465. — Bewick’s Brit. Birds, ii, p. 23. — 
’Fort. Syst.p. 335. — UHarle femelle, Briss. vi,p. 236. — Buff. 
viii, p. 272.— -PL Enl. 953.* 
This generally measures an inch or two shorter than the 
male; the length of the present specimen was twenty -five inches, 
extent thirty-five inches; bill crimson on the sides, black above; 
irides i-eddish; crested head and part of the neck dark brown, 
lightest on the sides of the neck, where it inclines to a sorrel 
colour; chin and throat white; the crest shoots out in long ra- 
diating flexible stripes; upper part of the body, tail, and flanks 
an ashy slate, tinged with brown; primaries black; middle se- 
condaries white, forming a large speculum on the wing; great- 
er coverts black, tipt for half an inch with white; sides of the 
breast, from the sorrel coloured part of the neck downwards, 
very pale ash, with broad semicircular touches of white; belly 
and lower part of the breast a fine yellowish cream colour, a 
distinguishing trait also in the male; legs and feet orange red. 
^Mergus Castor, Gmei. Syst. i, p. 545, etvar — Lath. Ind. Orn. p. 829, No. 2. 
— Dun Diver, Mosttagu, Orn. Diet. Sup. 
