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PYGOPODES. 



COLYMBID.E. 



COLYMBID^E. 



COLYMBUS SRPTEXTRIONALIS, LiliniTBUS.* 



THE RED- THROATED DIVER. 



Coli/)nbt(s scptciitrionaliH. 



The Red-throated Diver is the smallest species of the 

 geuus, us well as the most commou ; immature birds espe- 

 cially, and adults with the white throats of the winter 

 plumage in smaller numbers, being found on the coasts of 

 the British Islands from autumn to spring ; in fact, some 



* Syst. X:a. Kd. 12, i. p. -J-JU (1766). 



