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Mergansers, or Fishing Ducks
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Let the young housekeeper avoid any ducks with long, narrow, rounded, hooked, and saw-toothed bills; for the shelldrakes, or sawbills, as the mergansers are also called, have rank, unpalatable flesh, owing to their diet of fish, which are pursued and captured under water in the manner practiced by loons, cormorants, and other birds low in the evolutionary scale. Mergansers live in fresh as well as salt water.
American Merganser or Goosander.
Red-breasted Merganser.
Hooded Merganser.