﻿GOOSANDER. Ill 



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PLATE CCLXVIII. 



GOOSANDER. 



MERGUS MERGANSER. 



The Goosander is an occasional visitant in the southern 

 parts of Great Britain, but found throughout the year in the 

 northern parts of Scotland, the Orkneys, and other Scottish 

 islands. 



Many instances are on record of this bird having been 

 captured during severe weather between the months of No- 

 vember and March, in counties adjacent to the coast ; and the 

 fine specimen from which our drawing was made was oblig- 

 ingly lent us by Lady Rolle for the quarto edition of our 

 work : the specimen was accompanied by a coloured drawing 

 of the bird, in order to shew the beautiful tints of the plumage 

 when recently dead. 



The present species is widely distributed throughout the 

 Arctic regions of the Old and New World. 



It is an inhabitant of the colder regions in the summer. 

 From North America it extends over the United States ; 

 from Siberia it wanders to Japan and Tartary, the Black 

 Sea, the Caspian Sea, Turkey, Greece, Poland, Hungary, and 

 Italy. From Finland and Lapland it descends through 

 Norway, Sweden, and Denmark, to the Baltic, Prussia, 



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