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Hooded Merganser
Lophodytes cucullatus
Order
ANSERIFORMES
– Family
ANATIDAE
Authors: Dugger, B. D., K. M. Dugger, and L. H. Fredrickson
Revisors: Dugger, B. D., and K. M. Dugger

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