68 RESIDENTS AND MIGRANTS. 



GOOSANDER. Mergus merganser, Linnaeus. 



A winter visitant to England and Ireland. Of more 

 frequent occurrence in Scotland, and said to breed 

 in the Hebrides * ; although Capt. Elwes, who spent 

 two months in the Hebrides during the nesting- 

 season of 1868, made special search for this species 

 without seeing itf ; and Capt. Feilden and Mr. Harvie 

 Brown, who visited the Long Island in the summer 

 of 1870, were also unsuccessful in their search for it. 

 Dr. Dewar, however, found it breeding in North 

 Uist in 1858, and shot a female off the nest J. In 

 May 1871, Mr. Harvie Brown received fresh eggs of 

 this bird from the north of Perthshire. The nest, as 

 he informs me, was placed in the hollow of an old 

 tree ; and the eggs were taken on or about the 20th 

 of May. 



Fam. COLYMBID^E. 



GREAT NORTHERN DIVER. Colymbus glacialis, Lin- 

 naeus. 



A winter visitant, a few remaining throughout the 

 summer in Ireland and the Hebrides. The nest, 

 however, has not been found in the British Islands. 



* Macgillivray, Hist. British Birds ' ; The Ibis,' 1865, p. 447. 



t The Ibis,' 1869, p. 22. 



t Gray, * Birds of the West of Scotland/ p. 403. 



