SMEW. 



LOUGH DIYER. WHITE NUN. 



WHITE MERGANSER. WHITE-HEADED GOOSANDER. 

 SMEW MERGANSER, BED-HEADED SMEW. 



Mtrgus allellus, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



" mniutus, LlNNittUS. 



" Asiuticus, GMELIN. 

 Merganser stellutus, 



MergusA Diver. AlMlus. Allus White. 



THE Smew is an exceedingly elegant and handsome bird, 

 though its plumage is plain, consisting only of the two primitive 

 colours, so to call them. 



It occurs in Iceland, Sweden, Russia, Holland, France, 

 Germany, Switzerland, Greece; also in Asia, in Persia, 

 Kamtschatka, and Siberia, Asia Minor, about the Caucasus, 

 and in Japan. It is known, though only as a straggler, in 

 America, in the Fur Countries, United States: it belongs to 

 Greenland. 



It frequents the coast as well as rivers and inland waters, 

 giving a preference, it would seem, to the latter, and not, 

 like so many other birds we shall soon have to give account 

 of, to the 'deep, deep sea.' 



In Yorkshire one was killed at Sutton-upon-Berwent, near 

 York, in May, 1852, as the Rev. George Rudston Read, Rector 

 of that place, has informed me; several have been shot near 

 Don caster in hard winters; a few near Leeds; one at Svvillington, 

 January 24th., 1838; also at Gledhow. Others near York, 

 the males more rarely, the females and young less so. The 

 same remark applies to Oxfordshire, and indeed no doubt 

 everywhere else. In the month of January, 1838, however, 



