140 RED-THROATED DIVER. 
In Oxfordshire it is occasionally found in the neighbourhood 
of Weston-on-the-Green, in winter. I once had one shot near 
Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire: others have been procured there 
also. They are very common on Breydon, Yarmouth, Norfolk, 
in winter, and are occasionally met with in summer plumage 
on the coast of that county. Several near Lynn the beginning 
of 1852. 
One of these Divers, an immature specimen, was shot at 
Blatherwycke, in Northamptonshire, and another fell to the 
gun of the Hon. T. L. Powys, on the 5th. of May, 1855. 
In the spring of the same year, one, in winter plumage, of 
which J. R. Little, Ksq. has written me word, was shot near 
the Whittlesea Wash, in Cambridgeshire. In Lancashire one 
was caught near Lytham, in a snare set for rabbits, by one 
of the camekeepers of Talbot Clifton, Esq., December the 
10th., 1849. In Nottinghamshire one was killed near Mel- 
bourne, on the 31st. of January, 1846, during the very 
severe weather that occurred that season. Again, in another 
inland county, one was shot in the Severn opposite the 
Deanery at Worcester, about the 1st. of December, 1847, 
and two others afterwards in the same neighbourhood. 
Hight individuals of this species were discovered at Clandon, 
near Godalming, Surrey, the 14th. of October, 1848, and one 
of them, a young bird of the year, was secured. One was 
also shot near Guildford, on the 18th. of the same month; 
in all probability one of the same party. in Derbyshire 
ne appeared in the beginning of 1844, on the Derwent, 
near Derby, and was secured. 
In Yorkshire one specimen is reported by Dr. Farrar, as 
having been shot in Woolley Park, in the West Riding, the 
seat of Godfrey Wentworth, Esq., in July, 1833; a second 
was found at Banks Hall, near Barnsley; and a third was 
shot at Staincross. Several have been taken near Sheffield 
in winter, some at Hebden Bridge, and others near Doncaster 
and Huddersfield. One at Harehills, near Leeds, in January, 
1829; another on the River Ouse in 1838. The immature 
bird is not unfrequently obtained near York. 
This species breeds in the northern parts of Scotland, 
Sutherlandshire. Mr. Selby saw a pair of old birds there in 
June, 1834, which evidently had a nest. Sir William Jardine 
has shot the bird on the River Annan, in Dumfriesshire, 
fifteen miles from the sea. So it does also, or used to do, 
in the Orkneys, where it is not rare. It is most plentiful 
