2'S4 BRITISH BIRDS. 
GOOSANDER. 
{Mergus Merganfer^ Lin, — L’Harle, BufF.) 
The male generally weighs about four pounds^ 
and meafures in length nearly two feet, and in 
breadth three feet two inches. The bill is Bender^ 
and turned a little upwards ; it is three inches long 
from the hooked nail or tip to the corners of the 
mouth, but little more than two inches on the ridge ; 
both mandibles are black on the upper and under 
parts, and crimfon on the fides ; they are fliarply 
toothed on the edges, and on the infide of the up- 
per, which is narrow, thin, and hard at the tip, 
there is a double row of fmaller teeth : the tongue 
is furniftied with a fimilar kind of double row, run^ 
ning along the middle, and edged with a kind of 
hairy border : the irides are comrtionly of a fine 
