gulaund

gulaund
gulaund
[Icel. gulönd, f. gul-r yellow + önd (formerly written aund) duck.]
The Icelandic name of the Goosander; cited by Pennant, Arctic Zool. (1784) II. 572; and thence copied into Eng. Dicts.

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