merganser
- n large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges
- Professor Hixson has seen many another migratory bird at Columbia (hawk, merganser, sandpiper), believes they are attracted by the green of the campus, get lost among the .
- The strange birds give the narrative its own kind of plumage: teal, merganser, kittiwake, cormorant.
- Not long ago, a man shot one, thinking it was a merganser.