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Definition of Mergansers
1. merganser [n] - See also: merganser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mergansers
Literary usage of Mergansers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Game Birds, Wild-fowl and Shore Birds of Massachusetts and by Edward Howe Forbush, Willey Ingraham Beecroft, Herbert Keightley Job, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1912)
"In the plan of classification adopted by the American Ornithologists Union, the
mergansers or Sheldrakes come first. They are much hunted, ..."
2. Birds that Hunt and are Hunted: Life Histories of One Hundred and Seventy by Neltje Blanchan (1904)
"... but when a hard crust of ice locks up their fish, frogs, mollusks, and other
aquatic animal food, small companies of six or eight mergansers migrate ..."
3. Our Feathered Game: A Handbook of the North American Game Birds by Dwight Williams Huntington (1903)
"The mergansers are all very handsome birds, and as they fly swiftly present
excellent marks. I have eaten them when cooked by the wife of a bay man who was ..."
4. The Birds of Eastern North America Known to Occur East of the Nineteenth by Charles Barney Cory, Field Museum of Natural History (1899)
"... mergansers. Fish-eating Ducks having narrow bills with tooth-like serrations
on edges, and the tarsus, ..."
5. The Island of Nantucket: What it was and what it is : Being a Complete Index by Edward K. Godfrey (1882)
"There are times when the mergansers, coot, and eider furnish rare sport to one
who is willing to devote every minute to the hunting of them up and exercise ..."
6. Birds' Nests: An Introduction to the Science of Caliology by Charles Dixon (1902)
"... typical Gulls—Of the Black-headed Gull—Of the Ducks aud allied Birds—Of the
mergansers—Uses of down in these nests— Number of crude nest-builders—The ..."
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