dun-diver
[f. dun a. + diver 2.]
a. The female and young male of the goosander (Mergus merganser). b. U.S. local. The ruddy duck.
| 1678 Ray Willughby's Ornith. 333 The Dun-Diver or Sparlin-fowl, Merganser fæmina. 1766 Pennant Zool. (1776) II. 556 The Dun Diver or female is less than the male. 1829 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) I. 175 I shot whilst in Shrewsbury a Dundiver (female Goosander, as I suppose you know). |