174 GOOSANDER 
(Y. L. M, 1. ii. 83). Dr. Clague, of Castletown, has an 
immature Scoter, with whitish cheeks and fore-neck. 
On 10th December 1903 three or four, which seemed all 
or mostly adult drakes, were swimming just outside the 
rocks on the inside of Langness; on 18th December 1904 
the writer surprised four under the rocks almost at the 
extremity of the same peninsula, and he thinks that small 
dark Ducks observed in this neighbourhood at other times 
during the winter months probably belonged to this species, 
which will likely be found to be of sparing but regular 
occurrence. 
Round the coast of the northern half of Ireland the 
Scoter is a regular and often abundant winter visitor, 
frequenting Belfast Lough in enormous numbers. It is 
described as sometimes numerous off Kirkcudbrightshire, 
especially at Southerness, though rare in Wigtownshire; and 
is fairly abundant, and sometimes seen on fresh water, on 
the English shores of the Irish Sea. It is an uncommon 
bird in Orkney and Shetland, also in the Outer Hebrides. 
It is acommon and often abundant winter visitor to Britain 
in general, but especially on its eastern coast. 
MERGUS MERGANSER, Linn. 
GOOSAN DER. 
The Goosander has rarely been identified, and is pro- 
bably of very casual occurrence in Man. 
Mr. Kermode ‘about 1885’ saw two which had been 
shot in Peel Bay, as stated elsewhere, in November 1881. 
In January 1894 Mr. G. Adams had two, said to be from 
Santon and St. John’s respectively; these were both females. 
