Definition of Genus Mergus

1. Noun. Mergansers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Mergus

genus Melospiza
genus Melursus
genus Menippe
genus Meniscium
genus Menopon
genus Mentha
genus Menticirrhus
genus Mentzelia
genus Menura
genus Menyanthes
genus Menziesia
genus Mephitis
genus Mercenaria
genus Mercurialis
genus Mergus (current term)
genus Meriones
genus Merlangus
genus Merluccius
genus Merops
genus Mertensia
genus Meryta
genus Mesembryanthemum
genus Mesocricetus
genus Mesohippus
genus Mespilus
genus Mesua
genus Metasequoia
genus Metroxylon
genus Microcentrum

Literary usage of Genus Mergus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society by Wernerian Natural History Society, Edinburgh, Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1823)
"Observations on some Species of the genus Mergus. By JAMES WILSON, Esq. (Read 22d March 1823.) -c\.MONG many recent elucidations of the more difficult ..."

2. A History of British Birds: The Figures Engraved on Wood by Thomas Bewick, Ralph Beilby, Henry Cotes (1816)
"His arrangement is as follows:— genus Mergus. Species 1. Merganser Goosander. 2. Castor Dun-Diver. 3. Serrator Less Dun-Diver. 4. Albellus Smew. 5. ..."

3. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"... and removing the single species of loon to his genus Mergus (not Mergus Linn., 1758 and 1748) in which he placed all the other loons known to him, ..."

4. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory by William Macgillivray (1852)
"All the birds of this family were included by Linnaeus in his genus Mergus, to which we usually give the name of Merganser. Of the four species that inhabit ..."

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