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Definition of Hooded merganser
1. Noun. Small North American duck with a high circular crest on the male's head.
Generic synonyms: Fish Duck, Merganser, Sawbill, Sheldrake
Group relationships: Genus Lophodytes, Lophodytes
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hooded Merganser
Literary usage of Hooded merganser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Birds of America by John James] [Audubon (1843)
"Excepting the Smew or White Nun, the hooded merganser is the handsomest of its
family. Its broad and rounded crest of pure white, with an edging of jetty ..."
2. American Ornithology: Or The Natural History of the Birds of the United States by Alexander Wilson, Charles Lucian Bonaparte, Robert Jameson, George Ord, William Maxwell Hetherington (1831)
"The hooded merganser is eighteen inches in length, and two feet in extent; bill,
blackish red, narrow, thickly toothed, and furnished with a projecting nail ..."
3. Handbook of Birds of the Western United States: Including the Great Plains by Florence Merriam Bailey (1902)
"hooded merganser. lull narrow, slender, and with terminal part cylindrical, armed
along edges of mandibles with blunt, scarcely inclined i ; head with high ..."
4. A History of British Birds by William Yarrell, Alfred Newton, Howard Saunders (1884)
"THE hooded merganser. Mergus cucullatus. WE are indebted to Selby for the first
notice of the hooded merganser as a straggler to Britain; ..."
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