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GOOSANDER. 
DUN DIVER. SPARLING FOWL. SAWBILL. JACK-SAW. 
Mergus merganser, Linnavus. GMELIN. 
ae castor, PENNANT. BEWICK. 
Mergus—A Diver. Merganser—A word of the ‘composite order,’ 
from Mergus—A Diver. Anser—A Goose. 
Tue Goosander is indigenous in Iceland, Finland, Lapland, 
Sweden, Denmark, Russia, and Norway; and likewise is known 
in Poland, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Prussia, Pomerania, France, 
Holland, Switzerland, and Germany. 
It belongs to North America, extending from Hudson’s 
Bay over the United States, also to Greenland. 
In Asia it wanders from the Black Sea and the Caspian 
Sea, to Tartary, Siberia, and Japan. 
In Yorkshire the Goosander has been met with pecasioueilad 
that is to say, in severe winters, in the neighbourhood of 
Halifax; also in the Hast Riding. In Oxfordshire it is often 
met with on the rivers during severe frosts, but seldom in 
milder weather. 
One, a female, of which Mr. W. Brooks Gates has written 
me word, was shot at Weston Favell, near Northampton, the 
first week in February, 1855. One also in the same county, 
by the gamekeeper of Lord Lilford, in the beginning of 1850. 
It occurs but rarely on Croxby fees Thinicolnshire, the Rev. 
k. P. Alington has informed me. It has been shot too at 
Burleigh, near. Stamford. In Cornwall its occurrence is rare. 
One was obtained at Scilly, the end of December, 1853. 
Several have been killed at Penryn Creek, Falmouth. 
In Shropshire one was shot near Shrewsbury, on the River 
Severn, by the gamekeeper of J. A. Loyd, Hsq., the first week 
