PYGOPODES. ( 309 ) COLYMBID&. 



THE GREAT NORTHERN DIVER. 



RING-NECKED LOON, GREATEST SPECKLED DIVER, IMMER OR 

 EMBER GOOSE, GUNNER, NAAK, COBBLE, SEA HERDSMAN. 



Colynibus glacialis. 



The Divers were many, and various in hue; 

 Of the Northern, the Imber, Black-throated a few. 

 By tribes hyperborean their pelts often sought, 

 Into robes warm and flexile are frequently wrought. 



JENNINGS. 



THE Great Northern Diver is an autumn and winter visitor 

 to the coasts of Berwickshire, where it is occasionally seen, 

 and where its weird and melancholy cry is sometimes heard 

 amidst the booming of the waves when storms have lashed 

 the sea into fury and the rocky shores are whitened with 

 spray. 



Mr. Hardy says that a specimen of this bird was found 

 by the Cove fishermen in the nets on the 23rd of September 

 1856, and that it is considered rare on that part of the 

 coast. 1 He records that an immature bird was found dead 

 on the shore near Oldcambus on the 1st of April 1875. 2 

 Mr. William Patterson, late farmer at North Berwick Abbey, 

 has informed me that his father, who was tenant at Edington 

 Mill, on the Whitadder, about the beginning of this century, 

 shot a Great Northern Diver on the mill cauld there when 

 it was all frozen over except a small part in the centre. 

 He had observed the bird frequently diving, and got his gun 

 to try to shoot it, but it was not easy to get within gunshot, 



i Mr. Hardy's MS. Notes. a Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. vii. p. 484. 



