. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . rds of the same sex and females in their dull colouredcoats. This species is very destructive to fish, which it catchesreadily with its serrated bill. Mr. Brotherston, bird-stuffer,Kelso, writing on the effects of the severe winter of 1878-79,says: Goosanders have been numerous and fat. Nearlyevery one I have dissected has been gorged with trout andparr in various stages of digestion, and measuring from threeup to nin
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . rds of the same sex and females in their dull colouredcoats. This species is very destructive to fish, which it catchesreadily with its serrated bill. Mr. Brotherston, bird-stuffer,Kelso, writing on the effects of the severe winter of 1878-79,says: Goosanders have been numerous and fat. Nearlyevery one I have dissected has been gorged with trout andparr in various stages of digestion, and measuring from threeup to nine and a half inches in length. Although the Goosander generally departs towards theend of March for its breeding quarters in the north of ^ Mr. Kelly mentions St. Leonards Cauld, on the Leader, as a well-knownhaunt of the Goosander.—Hist. Ber. Nat. Chtb, vol. vii. p. 305. THE GOOSANDER. 129 Europe, a few remain and nest in some parts of the High-lands, including the counties of Perth, Koss, Sutherland,Inverness, and Argyle. It usually makes its nest in thehollow of a tree, or under some kind of shelter. It subsistsalmost entirely upon fish, and its flesh is -faJy42<-M ^^-tt. ;^^ ^^■^ VOL. II. ANSERES. ( 130 ) ANA riDM. THE SMEW. PIED SMEW, SMEE DUCK, WHITE NUN, WHITE-HEADED GOOSANDER, PIED DIVER, LOUGII DIVER, VARE WIGEON. Mergus albellus. cautious wafer-fowl, from distant climes. Wordsworth. The Smew is a rare winter visitor to the coast of Berwick-shire, and has been obtained only once in the interior of thecounty, a specimen in Kelso Museum having been killedat the Hirsel, near Coldstream.^ An adult male in fullplumage was shot at Eyemouth a few years previous to1880, and is now in my possession, having been kindlypresented to me by Mr. Evan Sanderson, Berwick-on-Tweed. 1 Mr. Hardys MS. Notes.
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