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GOOSANDER. 



DUN DIYEB. SPARLING FOWL. SAWBILL. JACK-SATV. 



Mergus merganser, LINN^CUS. GMELIN. 



" castor, PENNANT. BEWICK. 



Mergus A Diver. Merganser A word of the 'composite order,' 



from Mergus A. Diver. AnserA Goose. 



THE Goosander is indigenous in Iceland, Finland, Lapland, 

 Sweden, Denmark, Russia, and Norway; and likewise is known 

 in Poland, Hungary, Greece, Italy, Prussia, Pomerania, France, 

 Holland, Switzerland, and Germany. 



It belongs to North America, extending from Hudson's 

 Bay over the United States, also to Greenland. 



In Asia it wanders from the Black Sea and the Caspian 

 Sea, to Tartary, Siberia, and Japan. 



In Yorkshire the Goosander has been met with occasionally, 

 that is to say, in severe winters, in the neighbourhood of 

 Halifax; also in the East Riding. In Oxfordshire it is often 

 met with on the rivers during severe frosts, but seldom in 

 milder weather. 



One, a female, of which Mr. W. Brooks Gates has written 

 me word, was shot at Weston Favell, near Northampton, the 

 first week in February, 1855. One also in the same county, 

 by the gamekeeper of Lord Lilford, in the beginning of 1850. 

 It occurs but rarely on Croxby Lake, Lincolnshire, the Rev. 

 R. P. Alington has informed me. It has been shot too at 

 Burleigh, near Stamford. In Cornwall its occurrence is rare. 

 One was obtained at Scilly, the end of December, 1853. 

 Several have been killed at Penryn Creek, Falmouth. 



In Shropshire one was shot near Shrewsbury, on the River 

 Severn, by the gamekeeper of J. A. Loyd, Esq., the first week 



