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Professor Ansted includes the Red-breasted Merganser in his list, but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey. There are two specimens in the Museum a male in full plumage and a female or young male. SMEW. Mergus albellus, Linnaeus. French, "Harle piette," "Harle étoilé," "Petit harle huppé."
With the allied Mergus cucullatus we have, however, a case of this kind: the two sexes differ conspicuously in general plumage, and to a considerable degree in the speculum, which is pure white in the male and greyish-white in the female.
Being protected by so powerful an escort, Temujin's party were not molested on their journey, and they all arrived safely at the court of Vang Khan. Karakatay. Vang Khan's dominions. The cruel fate of Mergus. His wife's stratagem. Nawr. He falls into the snare. Armed men in ambuscade. Death of Nawr. Credibility of these tales. Early life of Vang Khan. Reception of Temujin. Prester John.
There is no specimen of either bird in the Museum. GOOSANDER. Mergus merganser, Linnaeus. French, "Grand Harle." The Goosander is a regular and tolerably numerous visitant to all the Islands, arriving in the autumn and remaining throughout the winter.
The King of Kurga put him into a sack, sewed up the mouth of it, and then laid him across the wooden image of an ass, and left him there to die of hunger and suffocation. The wife of Mergus was greatly enraged when she heard of the cruel fate of her husband. She determined to be revenged.
RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. Mergus serrator, Linnaeus. French, "Harle Huppé." Like the Goosander, the Red-breasted Merganser is a regular and by no means uncommon autumn and winter visitant to the Channel Islands.
Merganser, trachea of the male. Merganser serrator, male plumage of. Mergus cucullatus, speculum of. Mergus merganser, young of. Metallura, splendid tail-feathers of. Methoca ichneumonides, large male of. Meves, M., on the drumming of the snipe. Mexicans, civilisation of the, not foreign. Meyer, on a convoluted body at the extremity of the tail in a Macacus and a cat. Meyer, Dr.
Vang Khan's grandfather, whose name was Mergus, was taken prisoner in one of these quarrels by another khan, who, though he was a relative, was so much exasperated by something that Mergus had done that he sent him away to a great distance to the king of a certain country which is called Kurga, to be disposed of there.
Such stories as these, related by the Asiatic writers, though they were probably often much embellished in the narration, had doubtless all some foundation in fact, and they give us some faint idea of the modes of life and action which prevailed among these half-savage chieftains in those times. Vang Khan himself was the grandson of Mergus, who was sewed up in the sack.
Even in the anomalous cases of the Heliothrix and Mergus, it is probable that originally both adult sexes were furnished the one species with a much elongated tail, and the other with a much elongated crest these characters having since been partially lost by the adult males from some unexplained cause, and transmitted in their diminished state to their male offspring alone, when arrived at the corresponding age of maturity.
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