174 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
GOOSANDER. 
MERGUS MERGANSER, Linnzeus. 
Brockholes says that the Goosander ‘occasionally 
occurs on the estuary of the Dee and on the Dee 
Marshes,’ and Byerley makes a similar statement 
about the Liverpool district.2_ These remarks, of course, 
apply only to the winter months. 
There are two specimens in the Grosvenor Museum, 
Chester, from the river Dee: one shot by Mr. T. H. 
Hienett from a party of four birds, half a mile below 
Saltney Ferry, on January 9th, 1894; and one killed 
at Eaton on December 4th, 1889.2 It is somewhat 
remarkable that the Goosander is not met with more 
frequently on the Cheshire meres; the only examples 
we have seen are one in the collection of Mr. J. E. 
Newton at Denfield Hall, which was killed on 
Rostherne Mere in the first half of the present 
century, and one in Mr. R. Nunnerley’s collection, from 
the pool at North Rode. 
RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 
MERGUS SERRATOR, Linnzeus. 
The Red-breasted Merganser is a rare winter visitor 
to the Cheshire coast, and Brockholes does not seem to 
have observed it on the Wirral seaboard. Byerley gives 
no definite instance of its occurrence, but states on 
the authority of Mather, a Liverpool taxidermist, that 
1 Brockholes, op. cit. p. 15. 
2 Byerley, op. ci. p. 21. 3 Dobie, op. cit. p. 326, 
