RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 



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h'ATATOnES. 



ANATID,^. 



THE RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 



Mergus serratoi; Red-breasted Merganser, Penn. Biit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 214. 

 ,, ,, „ Mont. Ornith. Diet. 



,, ,, ,, Bewick, Brit. Birds, 



,, ,, Goosander, Flem. Brit. An. p. 129. 



,, ,, Merganser, Selby, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 379. 

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



,, ,, ,, Gould, Birds of Europe, pt. iii. 



Harle Hupp^, Temm. Man. d'Ornilh. vol.ii. p. 884. 



The Red-breasted Merganser is one of the species 

 of the genus now under notice, that may be said to breed 

 annually in some parts of the British Islands, and various 

 localities will be quoted ; though by far the larger portion 

 of these birds which are found in this country may be con- 

 sidered but as winter visiters, which arrive here late in 



