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GREAT NORTHERN DIVER. 



NORTHERN DIYER. IMBER. GREAT DOUCKEB. RING-NECKED 



DIYER. 



Colymbus glacialis, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



" FLEMING. SKLBY. JENYNS. GOULD. 



PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Colymbus A Diver. Glacialis0? or belonging to ice. 



THIS Great Diver is in Europe found in Iceland, Spitz- 

 bergen, the Faroe Islands, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, 

 Lapland, Finland, Holland, Switzerland, Germany, and France, 

 but in the latter only rarely in comparison with the former, 

 and in Italy a single specimen is all that has occurred. 



In America in Labrador, Greenland, the Fur Countries, and 

 thence on to the United States. 



In Cornwall one was taken in May 1828, near Polperro, 

 and two remained near Looe the whole of that summer. 

 They are not uncommon on that coast in winter. Two were 

 seen off East Looe on the 25th. of October, 1852, and one, 

 no doubt of the same pair, a female, was shot on the 8th. of 

 November. In the following year, in the month of December, 

 they were unusually abundant in that locality, ten or a 

 dozen being not unfrequently seen at a time, and in one 

 instance upwards of thirty. Several were seen in Plymouth 

 Sound in December, 1850, and two of them were shot. One, 

 a male, was obtained in Carrack Road, Falmouth, in March, 

 1845, and another in January, 1846; one in Gwyllyn Vase 

 Bay, in December, 1847; and on the 28th. of December, 

 1848, two others were seen there. One has visited the bay 

 every year for several years in May. Near Penzance in like 

 manner they have occurred one in October, 1844; two in 

 October, 1849. They are met with in the immature plumage 



