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plumage. Mr. Gunn purchased at Mr. Rising's sale 

 a black-throated diver, killed at Horsey, which had 

 assumed quite half the breeding plumage. In 1868 

 several immature examples were obtained, and on the 

 14th of January in the same year, Mr. Gunn received a 

 male, apparently assuming the adult plumage (" Zoolo- 

 gist," 1868, p. 1221). In March, 1871, one was killed 

 at Horning, and two on Breydon ("Zoologist," p. 2828). 

 In 1877 a bird of the year was sent into Norwich about 

 the first week in January, and an adult in winter 

 plumage was shot on the mill pond at Hempstead on 

 the 3rd of the same month; an immature bird was also 

 killed on the 13th December, as far up the Yare as 

 Surlingham Broad ("Trans. Norfolk and Norwich Nat. 

 Soc," ii., p. 479).'^ Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., was offered 

 a black -throated diver, at Cley, which had been killed 

 there on the 26th November, 1884. 



In the "Field" for May 17th, 1856 (see also "Zoolo- 

 gist," 1856, p. 5159), will be found a communication 

 to the effect that after a north-easterly gale, which 

 occurred on May 7th, the coast was strewed with 

 thousands of dead puffins and gulls ; and a subsequent 

 communication on the 24th of the same month, states 

 that among them " one or two black- throated divers " 

 had been found. The writer, however, was evidently 

 not an ornithologist, and may possibly have been mis- 

 taken as to the species ; it is much more probable that 

 they were red-throated divers. 



From the foregoing records it will be noticed that 

 many examples of the black -throated diver have been 

 killed in this county in inland situations, and on the 

 various broads, indicating a predilection for fresh water; 

 and, although the same has been observed of the great 

 northern diver, it has not happened to such an extent as 

 with this sj)ecies ; in fact, it may be that the frequent 

 records of its occurrence are to some extent due to its 

 venturing into such dangerous localities. The shore 

 gunners seldom meet with this species, and at Blakeney 



* In January, 1879, a considerable number of divers of various 

 species, chietly immature, were observed off Yarmouth during the 

 gevere weather which then prevailed, 



