RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 389 



NATATORES. ANATID/K. 



THE RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 

 Mergus serrator. 



Mergus serrator, Red-breasted Merganser, PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 214. 

 ,, MONTAGU, Ornith. Diet. 



,, ,, BEWICK, Brit. Birds. 



Goosander, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 129. 



Merganser, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 379. 



JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 249. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. iii. 



Hark Huppe, 



TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 884. 



THE RED-BREASTED MERGANSER is one of the species of 

 the genus now under notice, that may be said to breed 

 annually in some parts of the British Islands, and various 

 localities will be quoted ; though by far the larger portion 



