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seized it, and on examination, I found the blood flow very fast 

 from a flesh wound in the head, but there was some dry clotted 

 blood on its wings and side ; whence I concluded that a hawk 

 had singled out my wounded bird as the object of his prey, and 

 had struck it down the instant that my approach had obliged the 

 birds to rise on the wing ; but the space between the hedges was 

 so small, and the motion of the birds so instantaneous and quick, 

 that I could not distinctly observe the operation. MARKWICK. 



THE GREAT NORTHERN DIVER (Colymbus glacialis) 



GREAT SPECKLED DIVER, OR LOON. 

 As one of my neighbours was traversing Wolmer Forest from 

 .bramshot across the moors, he found a large uncommon bird 

 fluttering in the heath, but not wounded, which he brought home 

 alive. On examination it proved to be colymbus glacialis, Linn., 

 the great speckled diver or loon, which is most excellently described 

 in Willughby's Ornithology. 



