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as seven or eight specimens were procured at one shot, on the 
Deveron. I have seen as many as five or six together. 
Popicers cristatus [Great Crested Grebe]. 
An occasional visitor. 
PopIcEPs RUBRICOLLIS [fed-necked Grebe]. 
Of more frequent occurrence, but generally in immature plumage. 
Popicers auritus [Bared Grebe]. 
Less frequent than ‘the last. 
Popicers minor [Little Grebe]. 
A winter seldom passes without an opportunity occurring to obtain 
this species. It is one of the most expert divers we have. 
CotymBus GLactaLis [ Great Northern Diver]. 
Some seasons pretty plentiful. Splendid specimens are at times 
procured, but they are generally immature. 
Cotympvs arcticus [Black-throated Diver], and 
CoLYMBUS SEPTENTRIONALIS [Red-throated Diver’. 
Winter visitors, in about equal numbers. A few of them gradually 
fall victims every spring to getting entangled in the bag-nets 
set for salmon. They not unfrequently visit our larger streams, 
where they make great havoc among the smaller of the finny 
tribe. 
Uri Brunnicun [Brunnich’s Guillemot]. 
Has been once met with. 
Uria tROILE [Common Guillemot], 
Ura Lacurymans [Ringed Guillemot], 
Urta GryLie [Black Guillemot), 
Mormon FratercuLa [Puffin], and 
Axca Torna [Razor-bill]. 
All these species breed with us, but the black guillemot only rarely. 
I have procured several ringed guillemots both in winter and 
summer; I have also been shown places in the cliffs where the 
fishermen say they breed. 
Atca auie [Little Auk]. 
A winter visitor. In December, 1846, a terrific sea-storm raged 
here for the greater part of the month. At its termination I 
counted between the Burn of Boyne and Greenside of Gamrie, 
a distance of about nine miles, nearly sixty of these little birds 
lying dead, besides a number of guillemots and razor-bills. 
Great numbers were also found dead in the fields throughout 
the county. 
