GOOSANDER.
HWYADD DDANIIEDDOG, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH.
DUN DIVER. STARLING FOWL. SAWilli.I.. JACK-SAW.
Mergus merganser, LINN.EUS. GMELIN.
castor. PENNANT. BEWICK.
Mergus—A Diver. Merganser—A.word of the 'composite order,' from
Mtrgus—A Diver. Anser—A Goose.
THE Goosander is indigenous in Iceland, Finland, Lapland, Sweden,
Denmark, Russia, and Norway; and likewise is known in Poland,
Hungary, Greece, Italy, Prussia, Pomcrania, France, Holland, Switzerland,
and Germany.
ll belongs to North America, extending from Hudson's Bay over
the L'nited States; also to Greenland.
In Asia it wanders from the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, to
Tartary, Siberia, and Japan.
I n Yorkshire the Goosander has been met with occasionally, that
is to say, in severe winters, in the neighbourhood of Halifax, Leeds,
Hnddersfield, Doncaster, Goriuire near T h i n k , Hebden Bridge, a fine
male in January, 1842, York, the female and young not unfrcqucntly,
also in the East Hiding. In Oxfordshire it is often seen on the
rivers during severe frosts, but seldom in milder weather.
One, a female, of which Mr. W. Brooks Gates has written me
word, was shot at Weston Favcll, near Northampton, the first week
in February, 1855. One also in the same county, by the gamekeeper
of Lord Lilford, in the beginning of 1850. It occurs but
rarely on Croxby Lake, Lincolnshire, the Rev. R. P. Alington has
informed me. It has been shot too at Burleigh, near Stamford.
In Cornwall its occurrence is rare. One was obtained at Scilly, the