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SMEW. 
LOUGH DIVER. WHITE NUN. 
WHITE MERGANSER. WHITE-HEADED GOOSANDER. 
SMEW MERGANSER, BED-HEADED SMEW. 
Dlergus albellus, PENNANT. Monracu. 
“minutus, LINN2&US. 
< Asiuticus, GMELIN. 
Merganser stellutus, BRISSON. 
Mergus—A Diver. Albellus. Albus—White. 
THE Smew is an exceedingly elegant and handsome bird, 
though its plumage is plain, censisting only of the two primitive 
colours, so to call them. 
It occurs in Iceland, Sweden, Russia, Holland, France, 
Germany, Switzerland, Greece; also in Asia, in Persia, 
Kamtschatka, and Siberia, Asia Minor, about the Caucasus, 
and in Japan. It is known, though only as a straggler, in 
America, in the Fur Countries, United States: it belongs to 
Greenland. 
It frequents the coast as well as rivers and inland waters, 
giving a preference, it would seem, to the latter, and not, 
like so many other birds we shall soon have to give account 
of, to the ‘deep, deep sea.’ 
In Yorkshire one was killed at Sutton-upon-Derwent, near 
York, in May, 1852, as the Rev. George Rudston Read, Rector 
of that place, has informed me; several have been shot near 
Doncaster in hard winters; a few near Leeds; one at Swillington, 
January 24th., 1838; also at Gledhow. Others near York, 
the males more rarely, the females and young less so. The 
same remark applies to Oxfordshire, and indeed no doubt 
everywhere else. In the month of January, 1838, however, 
