NATATORES. 



THE GOOSANDER, 



395 



AN ATI DM. 





THE GOOSANDER. 



Mergus Merganser. 



Mcrgus merganser, 



castor, 



merganser, 



castor, 



merganser, 



castor, 



merganser, 



The Goosander, 

 Dundiver, 

 Goosander, 

 Dundiver, 

 ., Goosander, 

 Dundiver, 



PENN. Brit. Zool. vol. ii. p. 21 1. 

 213. 



MONT. Ornith. Diet. 



BEWICK, Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 266. 

 269. 



Green-headed Goosander, FLEM. Brit. An. p. 128. 

 Goosander, SELBY, Brit. Ornith. vol. ii. p. 375. 



JKNYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 248. 



GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. i. 



Grand Harle, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith. vol. ii. p. 881. 



THE GOOSANDER, the largest of the British Mergansers, 

 a male and female of which are figured ahove, is rather to 

 be considered as a winter visiter only to our islands, 

 although a small number remain to breed annually among 



