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ADDENDUM TO MR. PERCY EVANS FREKE’S PAPER ON 
A COMPARATIVE CATALOGUE OF BIRDS FOUND IN 
EUROPE AND NORTH AMERICA. 
America. 
Mergus cucullatus.* Linn. 
ganser. ) 
(Hooded Mer- 
The whole of North America. (Baird, 
Cassin, and Lawrence.) 
The West Indies and Mexico. (Sclater 
and Salvin.) 
Mergus serrator.* Linn. 
Alaska in summer (Bannister), and 
‘British North America. Common 
throughout Hudson’s Bay, and on the 
Mackenzie (Ross). In autumn and 
winter, Dresser found it frequent in 
New Brunswick. Passing southward 
to North Carolina (Coues). California, 
Vide page 373. 
Zurope. 
Mergus cucullatus. 
Mr. Harting’s Handbook, p. 165, gives 
its occurrence as follows :— 
One, Yarmouth, 1829. 
One, Menai Straits, near Bangor ; 
winter of 1830-31. 
One, Burton Park, Petworth, Sussex. 
One, Stoke Nayland, Suffolk. 
One, Dingle Bay, Kerry ; winter of 
1840. 
One, Co. Meath, Ireland. 
One, Caithness, prior to 1841. 
Two, near Leeds. 
One, Somersetshire. 
Three, seen on Frith of Forth, 5 M ay 
1853. 
» Two, Sheerness, March, 1870, 
Degland and Gerbe also state (Vol. IL, 
p- 573), on the authority of Temminck, 
that this species has been killed in 
France. 
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Mergus serrator.* Linn. 
Merganser. ) 
Mr. Dresser says, it breeds in the north 
of Europe, from Iceland eastward, 
through Scandinavia and Northern 
Russia, in Scotland, and sometimes in 
Ireland, but through England, Central 
and Southern Europe, it occurs as an 
autumn or winter visitor. South to 
Portugal and Southern Spain; Gib- 
raltar Irby); Malta (Wright) ; Italy; 
Sicily ; and in Sardinia (Brooke) ; 
Palestine (Tristram). Rare in Egypt 
and North-western Africa. Turkes- 
tan; Japan; China, Lower Amoor. 
Eastern Siberia (breeds, Dr. Radde). 
(Red-breasted 
END oF Voutume II. 
New Snurizs. 
