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RED-THROATED DIVER. Colymhus septentrionalis, 

 Linnaeus. PL 31, figs. 3, 4, 4a. Length, 26 in. ; bill, 

 2-25 in. ; wing, 11-25 in. ; tarsus, 3 in. 



Resident in Scotland and the Hebrides, where it 

 breeds ; a winter visitant to England, where it is 

 commonly known to the fishermen on the coast as 

 the Speckled Diver, and Sprat Loon. A white 

 one was obtained in Essex (Zool., 1862, p. 8002). 

 In Ireland it has been found breeding beside a 

 small mountain lough in Co. Donegal {ZooL, 1885, 

 p. 348, and 1887, p. 27; Ussher, "Birds of Ire- 

 land," p. 375). Nest and eggs figured by Pearson. 



A Red-throated Diver, shot Nov. 17, 1887, on 

 the Wye, near Ross, weighed 3f lbs. ; length, 2 feet 

 2 inches ; expanse of wing, 3 feet 6 inches. A 

 finer bird shot on the Sussex coast in winter 

 weighed 4 lbs. 8 oz. 



Fam. PODICIPEDID^. 



GREAT CRESTED GREBE. Podicipes cristatus (Lin- 

 nffius). PL 31, fig. 5. Length, 20 in. ; bill, 1-75 in. ; 

 wing, 7'5 in. ; tarsus, 2*5 in. 



Podicipes, not Podiceps, is the name used by 

 Linn^us, " Syst. Nat.," ed. 10, p. 136. See Babing- 

 ton, "Birds of Suffolk," p. 200, note. Podicipes, 

 moreover, is used by Willughby, Ornithologia, p. 

 257, and by Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, i. p. 91, 

 and has been adopted more recently by Stevenson 

 and Southwell, "Birds of Norfolk," vol. iii. p. 233, 



