The flight of the merganser is rapid and prolonged, without reaching any great elevation.
The merganser is a regular visitor, in winter, to our coasts and inland lakes.
The female has not as brightly colored a head as the female of the American merganser, and the throat is not pure white.
This evidently refers to the Goosander, which as he says in another place most answers to the merganser.
A name for the goosander (Mergus merganser) in immature plumage.
Spic′ūlum, a spicule; Spike′bill, a merganser, a sawbill: the marbled godwit.
There was a flock of red-breasted mergansers (merganser serrator) on a pool nearby.
The females and young birds of the Goosander and merganser are popularly called Dun-divers.
The name merganser, that is, 'Diving Goose', has reference to the size of the bird and its habit of diving for its food.
For all the splendor of his plumage, the merganser was not conspicuous where he sat.