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ˌberˈgander Ornith. Obs. or ? dial.
Forms: 7 burgander, brigander, 7–8 birgander, 8 bergender, 6– bargander, bergander.
[Of uncertain derivation: perh. f. ME. berȝ shelter, burrow (see berry n.2; and cf. bergh, berghman, berman, barman) + gander: cf. the synonyms burrow-duck, Da. grav-gaas. The word has however a curious resemblance to the North Fris. name barg-aand (Borkum), Du. berg-eend, G. bergente ‘mountain-duck,’ the analysis of which is of course altogether different.]
An old name (apparently still lingering on the Northumbrian coast) of the Sheldrake, Tadorna vulpanser (Leach), a bird related to the duck and goose, which inhabits the seashore and breeds in rabbit-holes or burrows, whence also called by some authors burrow-duck.
1544Turner Avium Hist. 23 Nostrates [i.e. Northumbrians] hodie bergandrum nominant (margin, A bergander). 1570Levins Manip. 79 Bargander, vulpancer. 1572J. Bossewell Armorie iii. 20 The Bergander is a byrde of the kinde of Geese, somewhat longer, and bigger then a Ducke. 1601Holland Pliny I. 281 Of the Geese kind are the Birganders named Chelanopeces. 1611Cotgr., Cravant, the small Goose, or Goose-like fowle, tearmed, a Brigander. a1682Sir T. Browne Wks. (Bohn) III. 509 Burganders..common in Norfolk, as abounding in vast and capacious warrens. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Bergander, a name by which some have called the shell-drake or burrough-duck. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) 1, Bergender (fowl), Vulpanser. Ibid., A birgander (bird), Vulpanser. 1879Johns Brit. Birds 608 Bargander, the Sheldrake. |