110 RED-THROATED DITEE. 



In Oxfortlslnre it is occasionally found in the neiirliljonrhood 

 of Weston-on-the-Green, in winter. I once had one shot near 

 Lyme Ilegis, Dorsetshire: others have been procured there 

 also. They are very comnaon on Breydon, Yarmouth, Norfolk, 

 in winter, and are occasionally met with in summer plumai,^e 

 on the coast of that county. Several near Lynn the beginninsj; 

 of 1852. 



One of these Divers, an immature specimen, was shot at 

 Dlatherwycke, in Northamptonshire, and another fell to the 

 gun of the Hon. T. L. Powys, on the 5th. of May, 1S55. 

 In the spring of the same year, one, in winter plumage, of 

 which J. E,. Little, Esq. 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 gamekeepers 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. 



Eight 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 ISth. of the sam.e month; 

 in all probability one of the same party. In Derbyshire 

 one 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 Hiding, 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 Hudder^lield. 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, in 

 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 Piver 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 



