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CHAPTER XXII. 



The Divers. The Grebes. The Q-uillemots. The Auks. The 

 Puffin. The Cormorants. The Gannet. 



DURING the breeding-season, some of the divers retire 

 to the freshwater lakes in the interior of this country. 

 When the young are old enough to fly, the parents 

 conduct them to the seaside, in order to teach them 

 how to swim and dive ; and when they consider them 

 sufficiently proficient, they leave them to their own 

 resources. In Nordland and Finmark, the peasants 

 make ornaments and head-dresses with the feathers 

 from the breasts of the " Colymbidae." The skin of 

 the breast, with the feathers attached, goes through a 

 simple process of preparation, and is then considered 

 fit for use. 



The black-throated diver (Colymbus arcticus). This 

 species is common in Norway, and is especially so, on 

 some of the northern lakes, during the breeding sea- 

 son. It is seen on the Christiania-fjord in the spring, 

 on its way to the lakes ; it returns to the fjord with 

 its young, and migrates late in the autumn. It is 

 called here the almindelig lorn, or common loon. It 



