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by man. The Lapps are very fond of ornamenting their dresses 

 and tobacco-pouches with the feathers of these handsome birds, 

 as well as using their skins for articles of clothing ; and I bought 

 of them a small bag of reindeer's skin, which they had tanned 

 for themselves and ornamented with tufts of feathers from these 

 birds. Its skin is also said to be highly prized by the Esquimaux 

 for its warmth and beauty, for which purpose they are much 

 sought after and dressed and made into garments, such as that 

 much-to-be-pitied people wear. This species is somewhat larger 

 than its red-throated congener ; hence known in Norway as Stor 

 Lorn, or ' Great Lorn.' Of all three species of Divers this is the 

 most rare on the English coast ; and I am happy in being able 

 to add it to our Wiltshire list, on the authority of Mr. E. Baker, 

 of Mere, who himself saw the bird, and described it in transition 

 plumage, though killed in the month of December, 1872, in the 

 neighbourhood of Salisbury. I have since learned from Lord 

 Methuen that he possesses a specimen which was killed on the 

 water at Corsham Court. In France it is Plongeon lumme ou d 

 gorge noire ; in Germany, Der polar Taucher oder Schwarz- 

 kehliger Seetaucher, ( Black-throated Sea-Diver.' 



212. RED-THROATED DIVER (Colymbus septentrionalis}. 



Of this species I have three occurrences in Wiltshire to record. 

 The first was captured after a severe storm on Knoyle Down, 

 when it was so exhausted and unable to rise that Mr. R Godwin 

 struck it down with a riding-whip and so secured it, when it 

 came into the collection of Mr. Baker, of Mere. The second was 

 shot at Lyneham in 1866, and is now in the possession of Major 

 Heneage ; and the third, as Mr. Grant informs me, was killed 

 at Erlestoke in November, 1876. I found it very common in 

 Norway, both on the inland freshwater lakes and on the salt- 

 water fjords. In the latter, however, they generally get up 

 towards the extreme end, where the narrow arm of the sea pene- 

 trates far into the interior of the country, often as much as eighty 

 or a hundred miles from the sea-coast. Here the fjord becomes 

 much like an inland lake ; and as large streams and torrents are 



