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ANA.TIDJE. 
THE GOOSANDER. 
Dun Diver (females and young males). 
Mergus merganser, Linn. 
Mergus castor , Linn, (females and young males) . 
Is probably an annual winter visitant, but in very limited 
numbers, and chiefly to fresh-water. 
Mu. Templeton made a drawing of an adult male in full plumage, 
which he saw in the museum of the Royal Dublin Society, and 
was told had been shot at Wexford. In his journal, one is noticed 
as having been sent to him in March 1808 by Mr. James Ross of 
Comber House, county Londonderry, and of another (“ Mergus 
castor”) seen in Belfast market on the 7th of November, 1808. 
My own notes and those of my correspondents on the species are as 
follow : — In the year 1833, a person to whom it was well known told 
me that, a few years before that time, he had seen two of these birds 
in full plumage in Belfast market : they had been only wounded, 
and bit wickedly at the tame ducks placed in the same basket 
with them for sale. 
Dec. 30, 1836. — I purchased a fresh specimen, which was shot 
about the western shore of Lough Neagh. 
Its weight was 3 lbs. 3 oz. Length 26^ inches. Bill, from forehead to point, 2£ ; 
to posterior extremity, 2-| ; to rictus 3^ inches. Tarsus 2^ inches. Carpus to end 
of wing 11 inches. The throat being thickly spotted with black, and other charac- 
ters, indicate its being a young male of the second year (according to Jenyns’ 
description). Upper mandible pinkish-red on sides, blackish horn- colour on ridge; 
nail of both mandibles black on the posterior, white on the anterior half. Under 
mandible, excepting a few irregular markings of black, wholly of a pinkish-red 
colour. Tarsi and toes bright orange ; webs orange, shaded with brown. Irides 
deep golden yellow. 
On dissection, it exhibited a young pike (JEsox lucius), 8-J- inches 
long, and quite perfect, except the lower jaw (which the gastric 
juice had acted upon) ; the posterior portion of another pike 
of equal size, and that of a third which had been considerably 
