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The mallard, teal, muscovy, widgeon, and wood-chuck are familiar species of the inland birds, and the merganser and canvass-back are the two most esteemed salt-water varieties. Wild geese are common throughout North America, and may be seen either in the early spring or late fall migrating in immense numbers.
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.
Female: without any such crest as her mate has, and brown where he is black. A Citizen of North America, very handsome and stylish when he is in full dress; but he is a Fishing Duck, and therefore not very good to eat, though not as rank as other Mergansers. Like the Wood Duck, but unlike nearly all other members of the Duck tribe, this Merganser builds his downy nest in a hollow tree or stump.
If the male pin-tail were to acquire his new plumage within a still shorter period, the new male feathers would almost necessarily be mingled with the old, and both with some proper to the female; and this apparently is the case with the male of a not distantly-allied bird, namely the Merganser serrator, for the males are said to "undergo a change of plumage, which assimilates them in some measure to the female."
"What kind is it?" asked Bobby looking up to encounter Mr. Kincaid's amused gaze. "Well it's called a merganser in the books," said Mr. Kincaid. "I'm going to have mama cook it," announced Bobby, and returned to his blissful contemplation. Mr. Kincaid grinned quietly to himself.
Bischoff, Prof., on the agreement between the brains of man and of the orang; figure of the embryo of the dog; on the convolutions of the brain in the human foetus; on the difference between the skulls of man and the quadrumana; resemblance between the ape's and man's. Bishop, J., on the vocal organs of frogs; on the vocal organs of cervine birds; on the trachea of the Merganser.
He raises himself by a peculiar motion, and brings his head and his talons together, and apparently takes a bite of a fish. While doing this his flight presents a sharply undulating line; at the crest of each rise the morsel is taken. In a long, deep eddy under the west shore I came upon a brood of wild ducks, the hooded merganser.
A brood of the goosander or red merganser, the young not yet able to fly, were the occasion of some spirited rowing. But with two pairs of oars in a trim light skiff, it was impossible to come up with them. Yet we could not resist the temptation to give them a chase every day when we first came on the lake. It needed a good long pull to sober us down so we could fish.
Its voice and the sound of its hammer are heard only in the depths of the northern woods. It is about as large as a crow, and nearly as black. We stayed a week at Moxie, or until we became surfeited with its trout, and had killed the last Merganser duck that lingered about our end of the lake.
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.
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