58 Dan Meinertzhagen's Diary. 



when we came to a broadening of the river 

 with many small islands. On one of these, 

 about three yards from the waters' edge, I took 

 a pair of Black-throated Diver's eggs, and on 

 another about two yards from the edge, a pair of 

 Red-throated Diver's eggs; there being in neither 

 case a nest, only a flat place made on the grass, 

 and a flat run down to the waters' edge. 





On neither occasion could I catch a glimpse 

 of the birds. There were several pairs of 

 Golden Eyes up the river, and I also saw, for 

 the first time, a pair of Red-breasted Mergan- 

 sers. We then landed, and trudged up the 

 most awful hill I've ever come across ; on the 

 further side we entered a ravine with rocks 

 sometimes fifty or sixty feet high on either side, 

 and at the bottom a small brook swarming with 

 Dippers. The low ground was covered with 

 and birch, in and out flew Camberwell beauties. 



