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The young males scarcely differ in 
plumage from the old female, which, as 
we have before remarked, is so similar 
in appearance to the female, and young 
male of the Goosander, as to be distin- 
guished with difficulty, (see page 360.) 
The Red-breasted Merganser is not 
common in Britain, particularly in the 
southern parts of the island ; but they are 
met with in great flocks at Hudson's Bay 
and Newfoundland, at which places num- 
bers of them breed-.* 
The nest is said to be made with dry 
grass, lined with down ; the eggs are 
white ; sometimes as many as thirteen in a 
nest, about the size of those of a Duck. 
They are also found in Russia, Greenland 
and other northern parts of the world, and 
sometimes on the coasts of the Mediter- 
ranean Sea. 
For a representation of the trachea of 
this species, see fig. I, 1, 2, plate 1. 
* Some authors assert that they breed in some of 
the Lochs in Scotland. 
