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throat in summer, except very late in that season in Nor- 

 way, and these were two small and young birds of the 

 year, only two or three months old. The few Divers ob- 

 tained with dark-coloured throats in winter, compared to 

 the number of those taken having white throats, seem to 

 make the former rather the exception than the rule, and I 

 have known a specimen of our common Tern, killed in 

 December, with a black head, thus, perhaps from some 

 morbid cause, carrying the strongest mark of its breeding- 

 plumage through the winter. 



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