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RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 



RED-BREASTED GOOSANDER. SAWBILL. HARLE. 



. Mergus scrrator, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



" cristatuSy BRISSON. 



" niger, GMELIN. 

 Merganser niger, 



Mergus A Diver. Serrator. Serra A saw. 



THE Merganser is a common bird in Europe in Norway, 

 Sweden, Lapland, Iceland, and the Ferroe Islands, as also in 

 Holland, Germany, Switzerland, France, and Italy. It like- 

 wise is found in Asia, in Siberia, about Lake Baikal, and 

 along the courses of the larger rivers, and eastward to 

 Japan. In America it belongs to Greenland, the Fur 

 Countries, the shores of Hudson's Bay, and Newfoundland. 



They frequent the coast, its bays and estuaries, and the 

 lower parts of rivers, namely, where they disembogue them- 

 selves into the sea, but sometimes advance upwards, and 

 reach inland waters, though seldom beyond the influence of 

 the tide. They breed, however, on fresh-water lakes. 



In Northumberland these birds occur along the coasts, 

 Holy Island and the Fern Islands being favourite localities; 

 also along the shores of Durham. 



In Lincolnshire the Rev. William Waldo Cooper shot one 

 in the Ancholme, in the winter of 1853-4. In Northamp- 

 tonshire the species has occurred on the River Nene. In 

 Suffolk one near Ipswich, as T. J. Wilkinson, Esq., of 

 Walsham Hall, has written me word. In the adjoining 

 county of Norfolk one, a male, an adult bird, was seen at 

 Lowestoft, in the third week of July, 1852, as recorded by 



