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$2 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
The Summer Teal ‘breeds in France, [It 
makes a curious neft, covered on the top, and 
generally with an opening on one fide; towards 
the fouth. 
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Genus38. ME RGUS. 
The Goofander’s bill: is flender, furnifhed at the end 
with a cradled nail; the edges of each mandible fharply 
ferrated, (or toothed like a faw.) 
The noltrils are near the middle of the mandible, fmall, 
and fubovated, (or rather oval, cr egg-fhaped.) 
The tongue is flender and rough. 
It_has four toes, three before, and one beltind. The 
buter . is longer than the middle toe; 
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OOS ANDERS, in hard wiriters, aré 
F found in fome of the rivers in England, 
They feed on fifh, and deftroy fuch a quantity; 
that they have been fometimes called Bird Otters; 
for Otters live very much upon fifh. The Goof- 
ander fometimes takeS’ a larger one than his 
ftomach can contain; the head part is firft di- 
gefted, and then by degrees his ftomach takes in 
the reft. His rough tongue, and the teeth, or 
: notchet 
