COMMON SCOTER GOOSANDER — RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. 
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as I have already intimated." I have, ere this, heard several Ducks styled 
“ Harlequin,” the last time the term being applied to the by-no-means-common 
Long-tailed Duck. 
COMMON SCOTEE. (Edemia nigra (Linnaeus). 
“ Black Duck.” 
A not uncommon winter visitant. — Harley wrote : — “ Chaplin has met with 
the species on Oroby Pool.’’ The late Mr. 'NViddowson wrote : — “ I shot one at 
Melton; now in ‘ Bickley Collection.’” It has also occurred more than once at 
Bosworth Park, as I am informed by Henry Long, the keeper. Mr. J. Whitaker 
obligingly writes me that he possesses two adult males, shot out of a flock at 
Thornton Eeservoir, 18th Sept., 1879, by Dr. John Wright (since deceased), of 
Markfield(see ‘ Zool.,’ 1879, p. 459). 
Mr. Macaulay records (‘ Mid. Nat.’, 1882, p. 79) : — “ Not unfrequently driven 
in by the easterly gales.” During August and September, 1881, three were 
obtained at Saddington, one of which (a male) he shot, on 3rd Sept., out of a flock 
of twenty, and presented to the IMuseum. One was purchased for the Museum, 
said to have been shot near the Abbey Meadow, Leicester, on 9th Feb., 1882. 
GOOSANDER. Mergus merganser, Linnaeus. 
A rare winter Gsitant. — Mr. Babington (Appendix ‘Potter,’ p. 70) noticed 
one, shot near Langley Priory, in the possession of E. Cheslyn, Esq., and Mr. 
Macaulay records (‘Mid. Nat.,’ 1882, p. 79) : — “A female specimen was killed on 
the Smeeton Canal in 1862, by Mr. A. Hildebrand.” 
The Museum possesses a flne male in adult plumage, shot near Blaby, 17th 
Dec., 1875, and presented by Mr. William Gregory. 
RED-BREASTED MERGANSER. Mergus serrator, Linnaeus. 
“ Sawbill.” 
A rare winter visitant. — One, shot on the pool at Coleorton Hall about 1860, 
is recorded by Mr. Macaulay (‘Mid. Nat.’, 1882, p. 79). It is preserved in the 
collection of Sir G. Beaumont. 
In Rutland. — As in Leicestershire. — Lord Gainsborough writes : — “ Two 
immature specimens shot at Burley Ponds by C. Masters, about 1878, now in 
possession of Mr. W. C. Morris, of Oakham.* Reported also from Holywell by 
Rev. J. B. Reynardson, and one shot on the Welland, near Ketton, now in the 
collection of Mr. C. 0. Eaton, of Tolethorpe.” 
* Masters informs me that he hilled three, of which Mr. Morris had two ; he does not 
remember what became of the other. 
