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BLACK-THROATED DIVER. 



LESSER IMBER. NORTHEBN DOUCKER. SPECKLED LOOl^T. 



Colymbus arcticus, Linnaeus. 



Cohpnhus — A Diver. ^/t^/cms— Belonging to tlie Arctic region. 



This beautiful Diver is common in i^orway on the lakes 

 on the higher parts of the mountains, and the same remark 

 applies to Finland, Sweden, and Lapland. It is noticed 

 besides in Holland, Russia, Germany, France, Switzerland, 

 and Italy; and belongs also to Asia, being seen in Siberia, 

 Kamtschatka, and Japan; and in America occurs from Hud- 

 son's Bay to the United States, but in the latter not so 

 commonly as in the more northern districts. 



A specimen of the Black-throated Diver was killed near 

 Purfleet, on the Thames, the 21st. of January, and another, 

 a male, on Barton Pond, Norfolk, the end of January, 1850; 

 one also, an adult male, about the middle of January, 1848, 

 on the River Wensum, at Taverham; a pair on one of the 

 Broads in the year 1832. In Essex, one at Chesterford, 

 the middle of January, 1850. 



In Yorkshire, two were shot off Scarborough by Mr. T. 

 Chapman Broune, of Leicester, in the year 1850. In Norfolk, 

 it is sometimes met with in winter, but has been very rarely 

 procured in summer plumage. In Lincolnshire, a fine specimen 

 was obtained at Trillingham Pond, near Lincoln, the 24th. 

 of January, 1850. One of these birds was killed near Sitting- 

 bourne, Kent, in 1840, of which Mr. Chafifey has written me 

 word. One was found dead at Thornham, on the Norfolk 

 coast, in October, 1855. In Sussex, an immature specimen 

 was obtained at Pevensey, in November, 1850. A male, a 

 young bird, was shot in February, 1850, at Blyth, in North- 



