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with success. It requires more patience and caution in 

 shooting these birds than any others I know of, excepting 

 the Northern Diver ; for in general they select such a place 

 for the site of incubation, as from its natural situation will 

 admit of their perceiving any one that approaches ; and 

 very often after creeping a great distance on your hands 

 and knees towards a lake, believing yourself unobserved, 

 on arriving there you have the mortification to find the 

 object of your search is on the side exactly opposite to 

 you." Mr. Hewitson, when on the west coast of Norway, 

 saw this species often, upon almost every piece of water, 

 and frequently heard their loud singular scream in an 

 evening at a great distance. My friend, Richard Dann, 

 Esq., sent me the following note : " This Diver is far more 

 common here than the Black-throated. On the west coast 

 of Norway it is very abundant from the Naze to the North 

 Cape. In the Lapland Alps, in the Dofre Fiell, and in 

 the interior of Sweden, it is equally numerous. In August, 

 1838, I saw on the great Tornea Lake, the source of the 

 Tornea river, thirty in a flock, and all old birds. Although 

 so common, it is rarely one sees the young before they are 

 able to fly ; their habits and mode of feeding their young 

 are similar to those of the Black-throated Diver. Their 

 cries are very mournful and melancholy. During the 

 breeding-season, while on the wing, they utter frequently 

 a sound like the word kakera^ Jcakera, by which name they 

 are called in many parts of Scandinavia. The red neck dis- 

 appears in the winter, a darker hue only marking the space 

 occupied by the red. The eggs are of a dirty greenish 

 hue." The eggs of this bird in my own collection measure 

 two inches eight lines in length, by one inch ten lines in 

 breadth ; of a dark greenish-brown when fresh laid, rather 

 thickly spotted with dark umber-brown ; but the ground 



