634 MERGUS SERRATOR. 
MERGUS SERRATOR, Linnzus. 
RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 
§ 5891. One.—Shetland. From Mr. Robert Dunn, through 
Mr. Chapman, 1843. 
Marked in Dunn’s handwriting. He found it in Scotland or some 
of its islands, where they are known to breed; it is a good egg and a 
rare one. 
§ 5892. One.—Island off Falsterbo, Sweden, 18 August, 1847. 
From Mr. Fitton. 
Taken and written on by Mr. E. B. Fitton himself. He wrote 
that he thought it was a Merganser’s not a Goosander’s. 
§ 5893. One.—Sutherlandshire, May, 1849. 
John Sutherland [of Ledbeg] gave me this egg, 19 May, 1850. 
On the 22nd I found broken eggs of Merganser on a point where I 
had seen a pair of the birds the day before. I saw them rather 
frequently in Sutherlandshire, but I cannot be certain that there 
were no Goosanders, though Mr. Dunbar said they were all Red- 
breasted Mergansers in the county. 
§ 5894. Sia.—Loch Assynt, Sutherland, 22 May, 1849. 
Sewn 
From an island round the corner near the end of the loch—steep, 
covered with heather, and having Osmunda regalis growing on it. I 
got a shot at a female Merganser, sitting on bare stones, near the 
water’s edge, with neck stretched out; but she flew off unhurt with 
the male, whom I had not seen before. Her nest was found on the 
island, with six eggs, newly laid, quite concealed by moss, as were 
the eggs in one of the Wild Ducks’ nests [§§ 5595, 5596]. It was 
on a different side of the island from where I saw the birds—perhaps 
fifty yards away, and placed near the top of a very steep bank. I 
did not find it myself, though I saw it before it was touched. The 
