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of Europeand America. It breeds in the Hebrides 
and the extreme north of Scotland. The female 
makes no nest, but deposits her eggs, which are 
two in number, upon the bare ground, removed 
about ten or twelve feet from the water's edge. 
The eggs measure two inches and three quarters in 
length, by one inch and a quarter in breadth, and 
are of a dark olive brown, thinly spotted with dark 
umber brown. 
DIVER, RED-THROATED. 
SPECKLED DIVER. 
CoLYMBUS SEPTENTRIONALIS, Lin. 
This is the smallest as well as the most common 
of the species. The occurrence of specimens with 
white throatsin winter is so frequent, while those 
with red throats at the same time of the year are 
so rare, that Naturalists have been led to the sup- 
position of their being two distinct species. From 
October to April the Red-throated Diver is met 
with from one end of Great Britain to the other, in 
estuaries, and along the coast from the British 
Channel to Cape Wrath. In summer many pairs 
breed in the northern parts of Scotland and in the 
Hebrides. The habits of this bird are very similar 
to those of the other two species, but it is more 
active in the water. In the bulky and rude nest 
