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it deposits four or five white eggs. In other 

 respects its habits are similar to those of the 

 kindred species, with which it often associates. 



MERGANSER, HOODED. 



MEEGTJS CTJCULLATUS, Lin. 



The proper country of this beautiful bird, of the 

 occurrence of which in England a few instances 

 have been recorded, is North America, in the 

 Arctic regions of which it breeds, retiring south- 

 wards early in September, and passing the winter 

 in the bays and estuaries, as well as on the inland 

 waters. They breed in holes and hollows. On a 

 few dried weeds and feathers of different kinds, 

 with a small quantity of down from the breast of 

 the female, the eggs are deposited. These are 

 from five to eight in number, and, except in size, 

 resemble those of the Eed-breasted Merganser. 



MEEGANSEE, EED-BEEASTED. 



BAY-NECKED GOOSEANDER. 



MEEGTJS SEREATOR, Lin. 



This species is frequent upon the lakes and rivers 

 of Norway and Sweden, where they breed, as 



