Horny projections which look more like teeth are found in the beaks of a special group of ducks represented in Britain by Goosander and Merganser, sometimes known as "sawbills". In these birds the beak is narrow and the "teeth" are used for gripping fish.

— James Macdonald Instructions to Young Ornithologists (1959)

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