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it rarely appearing in fully adult winter plumage. It 

 has been met with in change, but, so far as I am aware, 

 never in perfect summer plumage, although one, shortly 

 to be mentioned, procured by Mr. Gurney, near Lowes- 

 toft, had all but assumed the nuptial dress. Hunt, in his 

 list, speaks of the black-throated diver as very rare in 

 this county. Sheppard and Whitear merely catalogue 

 the species without remark, and neither Gurney and 

 Fisher, nor Lubbock give any definite information with 

 regard to it. A note in Mr. liubbock's copy of " Bewick " 

 is as follows : — " In 1832 saw a very fine pair of these 

 birds preserved by Smith ; thej^ were shot in Postwick 

 Reach, about four miles from Norwich, in the winter of 

 1831-2. Stufied for Mr. Penrice. A good many divers 

 were killed and exposed for sale in Norwich after a 

 furiofus gale from the north-west in the beginning of 

 December, 1836." Mr. Blofeld has in his collection 

 a fine adult male, which was killed on Barton Broad, 

 in the winter of 1849-50, and in his notes he also 

 mentions an immature bird, which was taken in a 

 net on Wroxham Broad. Mr. Dowell has a good 

 adult specimen, which was killed at Wells early in 

 January, 1849. Mr. Stevenson has notes of a young bird 

 killed in Scottow park on 10th November, 1851 ; one 

 on 7th December, 1852, at Blakeney ; a young male at 

 Colney, 17th February, 1855; one also, immature, at 

 E,an worth, 11th December, 1856 ; a fine old male on 

 Barton Broad, 20th January, 1860 ; and a young one, also 

 killed at Barton on 1st March of the same year; in 

 1861, 12th January, an example assuming the black 

 throat ; 2nd February, an adult at Hickling, with white 

 spots on the wings ; and on 16th November of the same 

 year, a young bird. Mr. J. H. Gurney has a beautiful 

 specimen in his collection killed about 1857, near 

 Lowestoft, in nearly full breeding plumage, slight 

 remains of the winter dress still shewing on the cheek. 

 There is also a specimen in Mr. Lucas' possession, 

 killed at Yarmouth, which he purchased at the sale 

 of Mr, Overend's collection m 1876 ; and another in the 

 Norwich Museum, presented by Mr. Gurney, which was 

 killed at Yarmouth about Christmas. Both of these 

 have, to a considerable extent, assumed the breeding 



