Merganser amor Ioanns . 
Boston Harbor, Mass. 
1893. Cl was on a dumping scow off the outer islands with E.A. 
Jan. 19. & 0. Bangs and Dr. Sidney Holdritch where among other birds we 
saw one Gooseander). The Goo scan dor , a fine old drake in full 
plumage, was swimming in a narrow channel in the ice off Port 
Winthrop near, but evidently not in company with, several Red- 
breasted Mergansers from which we had no difficulty in dis- 
tinguishing it, even without the aid of our glasses, for we 
Bangs 
passed within less than 100 yards of the bird. Neither^ nor I 
had ever seen a Gooseander before in salt water. 
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