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RED-THROATED -DIVER. 
SPRAT LOON. RAIN GOOSE. SPECKLED DIVER, (YOUNG.) 
Colymbus septentrionalis,  - PENNANT. Montacu. Berwick. 
“6 stellatus, PENNANT. MontTact. Berwick. 
striutus, GMELIN. 
Colymbus—A Diver, Septentrionalis—Belonging to the north. 
Tue Red-throated Diver is another very fine and striking- 
looking bird. ; 
In Norway it is a very common species, and is to be seen 
on most of the lakes and fiords, both salt-water and fresh, 
but chiefly where the latter prevails. It also belongs to 
Finland, Lapland, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, and Kamtschatka, 
the Ferroe Isles, and Iceland, and has been taken on the 
coasts of Holland, France, and Italy, Greece, and in Switzer- 
land. In Asia, M. Temminck assigns it to Japan, and it is 
said also to occur in Siberia, Tartary, and along the shores 
of the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, and the Sea of Azoff. 
Likewise in America in various parts of the northern half 
of the continent, on the shores of Labrador, Boothia, the 
Bay of Fundy, Hudson’s Bay, the Bay of Boston, and along 
different other shores and lakes of the United States—thus 
also in Greenland. 
The young occur in the winter along the Cornish coast, 
more or less commonly. One adult was shot near Pennance, 
February, 2nd., 1845. Immature birds more frequently there 
and at Gwyllyn Vase. In Devonshire they also are not un- 
common, and the same observation applies to the counties of 
Kent, Essex, Sussex, on the coast of which many appeared 
in the winter of 1795, as recorded by Montagu; Hants, 
Durham, and Northumberland. Specimens are often on sale 
in the London markets. One was caught on the Cumber- 
land coast on the Ist. of May, 18384. 
