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amount of slaughter of tame Pheasants just arrived 
by rail from Mr. Castang’s. If any of the tailors 
and cockneys the Rev. I’. O. Morris writes so 
pathetically about, in the ‘Times,’ as destroying 
the poor Gulls and Guillemots at their breeding 
stations about Flamborough, would try their hands 
instead at a good Northern Diver chase, rowing or 
sailing their own boat, they would get plenty of sea 
air and exercise, and might consume as much beer 
and expend as much ammunition as if they had shot 
two or three hundred poor birds either sitting on 
their eggs or seeking food for their young, who, 
consequent upon the death of the parent birds, are 
left to starve on their nests; and besides, there 
would be more enjoyment in an occasional success, 
as there would certainly be some skill and perse- 
verance shown in the chase. 
The food of the Northern Diver consists almost 
entirely of fish, such as herrings, mackerel, sprats, 
sand-eels, and occasionally prawns and shrimps. 
The Great Northern Diver does not appear to 
breed in any part of England; but I believe it does 
so occasionally in the extreme North of Scotland 
and in the Scotch Islands: at this time it appears to 
frequent inland waters and lakes. The nest, which 
is flat and made of dead herbage, is placed near the 
water, amongst reeds and flags. The nesting time 
appears to be the only period in which this bird ever 
willingly goes on shore, for, as may be at once seen 
