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ANATID.E. 



NATATORES. 



AN AT t !).¥:. 



THE HOODED MERGANSER. 



Mergvs cnrnllatiis, Hooded Merganser, Selby, Brit. Ornilh. vol. ii. p. 383. 

 ',, ,, ,, ,, Jenyns, Brit. Vert. p. 249. 



,, ,, ,, ,, Eyton, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 75. 



,, ,, ,, „ Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. ii. 



,, ,, Harle couronn^, TEMM.Man. d'Ornith. vol. iv. p. 557. 



We are indebted to Mr. Selby for the first notice of the 

 Hooded Merganser as a British Bird ; the specimen was ob- 

 tained at Yarmouth, in Norfolk, during the winter of 1829, 

 and passing into the possession of Mr. Selby, the occurrence 

 was recorded in the first volume of the Transactions of the 

 Natural History of Northumberland, Durham, and New- 

 castle-upon-Tyne, page 292. A short notice appears also 

 in Messrs. Paget's sketch of the Natural History of Yar- 

 mouth and its vicinity ; and an early account appeared in 

 the third volume of the Edinburgh .Journal of Natural and 

 Geographical Science, page 238, by Mr. Selby, who was in- 



