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THE EED-THROATED DIVER. 



November 1876. It was unable to fly, and had apparently 

 been driven inland by the stormy vi^eather. 



The Eed-throated Diver in breeding plumage has a 

 patch of reddish chestnut on the throat, which disappears 

 in winter. It feeds on fish, molluscs, and crustaceans, and 

 in diving uses its wings under the water in the same way as 

 when flying. It breeds as far south as Jura, and in Iceland, 

 and other northern parts of Europe. 



Although the Black-throated Diver {Colyiiibus arcticus) 

 has been procured at the mouth of the Tweed,^ I have no 

 record of its occurrence in Berwickshire. 



1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. i. p. 255. 



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