HOODED MERGANSER. 383 



NA TA TORES. ANA TIDM. 



THE HOODED MERGANSER. 



Mergus cucullatus. 



Meryus cucullatus^ Hooded Merganser, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 388. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 249. 



v EYTON, Rare Brit. Birds, p. 75. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. ii. 



Harle couronnt, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. iv. p. 557. 



WE are indebted to Mr. Selby for the first notice of the 

 Hooded Merganser as a British Bird ; the specimen was 

 obtained at Yarmouth, in Norfolk, during the winter of 

 1829, and passing into the possession of Mr. Selby, the 

 occurrence was recorded in the first volume of the Trans- 

 actions of the Natural History of Northumberland, Dur- 

 ham, and Newcastle- upon-Tyne, page 292. A short no- 

 tice appears also in Messrs. Paget's sketch of the Natural 

 History of Yarmouth and its vicinity ; and an early ac- 

 count appeared in the third volume of the Edinburgh 



