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FEMALE GOOSANDER. 
these parts are of a beautiful orange, which changes after death 
to the colour they mention. 
The above description was taken from a fine full-plumaged 
male, which was shot in the vicinity of Philadelphia in the 
month of January. It was in good condition, and weighed 
three pounds thirteen ounces avoirdupois.] 
FEMALE GOOSANDER Plate LXVIII. Fig. 2. 
Peales Museum, No. 2933. — Dun Diver, Lath. Syn. iii. p. 240. — Arct. Zool. No, 
465. — Bewick's Brit. Birds, ii. p. 23. — Turt. Syst. p. 335. — L’Harle femelle, 
Briss, vi. p. 236. — Buff. viii. p. 272. — PI. Enl. 953. 
MERGUS MERGANSER.— 
Syn. of Fern, or Young. Mergus castor, Linn. Syst. i. 209. — Merganser cinereus, 
Briss. Orn.yi. 254 DunDivei-, or Sparling Fowl, jBcw. &c. — Goosander 
Female, Selby's Illust. pi. LVII. 
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, reddish ; 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 radiating flexible stripes ; upper part of the 
body, tail, and flanks, an ashy slate, tinged with brown; 
primaries, black ; middle secondaries, white, forming a large 
speculum on the wing ; greater 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 semi- 
circular 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. 
[It is trulyastonishingwithwhat pertinacity Montagu adheres 
to the opinion that the dun diver is a species distinct from the 
goosander. Had this excellent ornithologist had the same 
opportunities for examining these birds that we have, he would 
