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from time to time, but always leave two or 
three at least, in order to continue the 
breed. 
The Goosander feeds on fish, for which 
it dives with great celerity, and holds its 
slippery prey with great security by means 
of its toothed bill. It takes and swallows 
fish much larger than can enter entire into 
its stomach : the head first lodges in the 
oesophagus, and is digested before the 
body can descend . 
This bird inhabit the Arctic regions of 
the new and old world; in temperate 
climes it is regularly a bird of passage in 
winter; during that season it is pretty 
abundant upon the coast of France, Hol- 
land, and more abundant in hard frosts 
upon the lakes of the interior; is common 
in Germany even as far as the south of that 
country ; they pass the whole year in the 
Orkneys, yet seldom appear in Great 
Britain, except in very severe seasons. 
