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markets throughout the winter. The Bev. Richard Lub- 

 bock sends me word that on the broads of Norfolk many 

 are seen, but very few are procured, the boat shooters 

 leaving them unmolested ; the diving powers of the bird 

 causing only loss of time and labour. 



Mr. Selby mentions that young birds in the plumage of 

 their first winter, are much more common than older birds 

 on the coasts of Durham and Northumberland, perhaps in 

 the proportion of fifty to one ; but that in Sutherlandshire 

 adult birds were seen in June 1834, and though no eggs 

 or young were obtained, it was evident from the conduct 

 of the birds that they were breeding. On the western- 

 side Mr. Heysham of Carlisle mentions " that an adult 

 Bed-throated Diver, in nearly full summer-plumage, was 

 caught in a stake-net on the coast on the first of May, 

 1834. Notwithstanding the period of the year, the bird 

 was very much in moult. 11 Pennant notices having seen a 

 pair in July in the Hebrides, and Mr. J. Macgillivray, on 

 his visit to the Outer Hebrides in the summer of 1840, 

 observed this species on several of the lakes. The Bev. 

 Mr. Low, in his <; Natural History of Orkney, 11 says, " this 

 bird continues with us the whole season ; builds on the 

 very edge of a lake in the hills of Hoy ; lays two eggs ; 

 its nest is placed so as it can slip from it into the water, as 

 it can neither stand nor walk on land, but can make very 

 quick way at sea ; flies well, and commonly very high ; 

 makes a vast howling, and sometimes croaking, noise, 

 which our country-folks say prognosticates rain, whence 

 its name with us of the Bain-goose. 11 Mr. Salmon, who 

 visited Orkney with his brother in the summer of 1831, 

 for the purpose of collecting the eggs of the different birds 

 that resort there annually to incubate, mentions that " a 

 few pairs of the Bed-throated Diver annually breed on the 



