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187. Mergus merganser. Goosander. 
Dun-diver. 
A winter visitor, and not uncommon during hard 
weather, more especially on inland waters. 
Adult males are rather scarce, females and young males 
being more usual. 
Our first records are from Gilbert White's " Journal " : — 
"January 14th, 1789. A goosander and a dun-diver, a 
duck and a drake of the same species {Mergus mergmiser) 
were brought me ... . shot on the stream at Hedleigh." 
Hawker does not appear to have known the bird, but 
there are a female and a young male in the Heron Court 
collection, killed at one shot on the Stour in January 
1836, besides a female obtained in the same locality on 
January 9th, 1891. 
Bury mentions a fine adult male shot on a pond at 
Knighton in the winter of 184 1-2. 
Wise was informed by Rake of a male and two or 
three females killed near Fordingbridge in the winter 
©f 1855.1 
Specimens have occurred at Milcourt, Alton (Alton 
Museum), and at Froyle (Bell's edition of " White "). 
The specimens in the Hart collection are dated 
December 24th, 1879, and February 14th, 1882. 
Two were shot out of a flock at Stockbridge in 
January, 1881 (Winchester College Natural History 
Society's Report). 
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