GoOosANDER. NATATORES. MERGUS. 375 
GOOSANDER. 
Meraus Mereanser, Linn. 
PLATE LVII. 
Mergus Merganser, Linn. Syst. 1. 208. 2.—Gmel. Syst. 1- 544.—Raii Syn. 
134. A. 1.—Will. 253. t. 64.—Briss. Orn. 6. 231. t. 32.—Lath. Ind. Orn. 
2. 828. sp. 1.—Wils. Amer. Ornith. 8. 70. pl. 68. ‘t 1. and 2.—Flem. Br. 
Anim. 1. 128. sp. 200.—Faun. Amer. Boreal, 2. 460. No. 220. 
Merganser Raii, Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 12. 161. pl. 53. 
Le Harle, Buff: Ois. 8. 267. sp. 23.—Id. Pl. Enl. 951. 
Grand Harle, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 881. 
Taucher-gans, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 781.—Meyer, Tasschenb. 2. 560. 
Goosander, or Merganser, Penn. Br. Zool. 2. 556. No. 260.—Arct. Zool. 
2. No. 465.— Will. (Ang.) 335. t. 64.—Lath. Syn. 6. 418. 1.—Id. Sup. 2. 
336.—Lewin’s Birds, 6. pl. 2. 31.—Mont. Orn. Dict. 1. and Sup.—Bewick’s 
Br. Birds, ed. 1826. p. t. 250.—Wils. Amer. Orn. 8. 70. pl. 68. f- 1. and 
2.—Low’s Faun. Orcad. p. 131-—Rennie’s Mont. Orn. Dict. 217. 
Mergus castor, Linn. Syst. 1. 209. 4.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 545. B.—ZLath. Ind. 
Orn. 2. 829. sp. 2. 
Mergus rubricapillus, Gmel. Syst. 1. 545. 
Mergus serratus longiroster, Raii Syn. 134. A. 2.— Will. 253. t. 64. 
Merganser cinereus, Briss. Orn. 6. 254. 7. t. 25. 
Le Harle Femelle, Buff: Ois. 8. 236.—Id. Pl. Enl. 953. 
Dundiver, or Sparling Fowl, 2. 557. No. 260. pl. 92. f. 2—Arct. Zool. 
2. 465.—Albin, 1. t. 87.—Lath. Syn. 6. 240. 221. 4.—-Id. Sup. 270.— 
Lewin’s Br. Birds, pl. 232.—Mont. Orn. Dict. and Sup.—Bewick’s Br. 
Birds, ed. 1826, p. t. 253. 
Provinciat—Saw-Bill, Harle, Earl-Duck, Jack-Saw. 
Tuis large and handsome species is one of our rarer Eng- 
lsh visitants, and seldom makes its appearance in the more 
southern districts of the country, except in winters attended 
by long continued frost ; but in the northern parts of Scot- 
land, and in the Orkneys and other Scottish islands, it is a 
permanent resident ; finding subsistence throughout the 
year either in the fresh-water lakes of the interior, or (when 
these are frozen) 1 in the deep indentations of the coast, form- 
ed by the saline lochs, so numerous in that part of the king- 
dom. It is widely distributed throughout the arctic regions 
of both the ancient and new worlds. In Europe, during its 
equatorial migration, it visits France, Holland, Germany, 
Female and 
Young Males. 
