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EED-THROATED DIVER. 



SPRAT LOON. EALtf GOOSE. SPECKLED DIYEE, (YOUNG.) 



Cofymbiis septentiionulis, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



" ste/lxtiis, PENNANT. MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



striutus, GMKLIN. 



C'o/ymbusk Diver. Septentrionalis Belonging to the north. 



THE Red-throated Diver is another very fine and striking- 

 looking bird. 



In Norway it is a very common species, and is to be seen 

 on most of the lakes and fiords, both salt-water and fresh, 

 but chiefly where the latter prevails. It also belongs to 

 Finland, Lapland, Denmark, Sweden, Russia, and Kamtschatka, 

 the Ferroe Isles, and Iceland, and has been taken on the 

 coasts of Holland, France, and Italy, Greece, and in Switzer- 

 land. In Asia, M. Temminck assigns it to Japan, and it is 

 said also to occur in Siberia, Tartary, and along the shores 

 of the Caspian Sea, the Black Sea, and the Sea of Azoff. 

 Likewise in America in various parts of the northern half 

 of the continent, on the shores of Labrador, Boothia, the 

 Bay of Fundy, Hudson's Bay, the Bay of Boston, and along 

 different other shores and lakes of the United States thus 

 also in Greenland. 



The young occur in the winter along the Cornish coast, 

 more or less commonly. One adult was shot near Pennance, 

 February, 2nd., 1845. Immature birds more frequently there 

 and at Gwyllyn Vase. In Devonshire they also are not un- 

 common, and the same observation applies to the counties of 

 Kent, Essex, Sussex, on the coast of which many appeared 

 in the winter of 1795, as recorded by Montagu; Hants, 

 Durham, and Northumberland. Specimens are often on sale 

 in the London markets. One was caught on the Cumber- 

 land coast on the 1st. of May, 1834. 



