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RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 
RED-BREASTED GOOSANDER. SAWBILIL. HARLE. 
Mergus serrator, Pennant. Montacu. BEWICK. 
“  eristatus, Brisson, 
se) omager, GMELIN. 
Merganser niger, BRIssoNn. 
Mergus—A Diver. Serrator. Serra—A saw. 
Tut Merganser is a common bird in Kurope—in Norway, 
Sweden, Lapland, Iceland, and the Ferroe Islands, as also in 
Holland, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy. It like- 
wise is found in Asia, in Siberia, about Lake Baikal, and 
along the courses of the larger rivers, and eastward to 
Japan. In America it belongs to Greenland, the Fur 
Countries, the shores of Hudson’s Bay, and Newfoundland. 
They frequent the coast, its bays and estuaries, and the 
lower parts of rivers, namely, where they disembogue them- 
selves into the sea, but sometimes advance upwards, and 
reach inland waters, though seldom beyond the influence of 
the tide. ‘They breed, however, on fresh-water lakes. 
In Northumberland these birds occur along the coasts, 
Holy Island and the Fern Islands being favourite localities; 
also along the shores of Durham. 
In Lincolnshire the Rev. William Waldo Cooper shot one 
in the Ancholme, in the winter of 1853-4. In Northamp- 
tonshire the species has occurred on the River Nene. In 
Suffolk one near Ipswich, as T. J. Wilkinson, Esq., of 
Walsham Hall, has written me word. In the adjoining 
county of Norfolk one, a male, an adult bird, was seen at 
Lowestoft, in the third week of July, 1852, as recorded by 
